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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS.
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NORTH AMERICA.
WITH A LIST OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES,
PREPARED FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
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WASHINGTON:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
JULY, 1S61.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE present " Synopsis of North American Neuroptera" has
been prepared by Dr. Hermann Hagen of Konigsberg (one of the
highest living authorities on this subject), at the special request
of the Smithsonian Institution, from materials in considerable
part supplied by the collections of the Institution, or furnished for
the purpose, by correspondents, at its request. It is hoped that
the publication of this work and its distribution throughout the
country will call attention to the insects of this order, and result
in the collection of fuller materials, to be used hereafter in the
preparation of a more perfect report.
For the purpose of making the present work serve the purpose
of a report on the Neuroptera of the New World, a list of the
names of the known South American species has been added.
Some of these have not yet been published, but descriptions of
them will shortly be presented to the world by Dr. Hagen in some
one of the German scientific journals.
The manuscript of this work was furnished by Dr. Hagen in
Latin, and it has been translated into English by Mr. P. R. Uhler
of Baltimore. To him, and to Baron R. Osteu Sacken, the Insti-
tution is under obligations for the careful examination and cor-
rection of the proof sheets.
JOSEPH HENRY,
Secretary S. I.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
WASHINGTON, June, 1861.
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION, NOVEMBER, I860.
PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER.
PREFACE.
THE following Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America
has been prepared in accordance with the desire of the Smithsonian
Institution, and contains all the known species found hitherto in
the United States, in the English and Russian colonies, Mexico,
Central America, and the West Indies. Many species described
originally as belonging to the last-named countries, may hereafter
be found in the southern parts of the United States.
The materials upon which the Synopsis has been based are the
following: —
1. Species furnished by the Smithsonian Institution, chiefly
Odonata, collected by Capt. J. Pope, U. S. A., on the Pecos River,
Western Texas (lat. 32°, long. 104°), by Dr. Berlandier and Lt.
Couch, U. S. A., at Matarnoras, and by Dr. Engelmann at St.
Louis.
2. The very numerous species collected by Baron Osten Sacken
in different parts of the United States, particularly at Washington,
at Trenton Falls, at Savannah and Dalton in Georgia, at Berkeley
Springs in Virginia, in Florida, in Cuba, on the St. Lawrence
River, and at Chicago.
3. A considerable number of Odonata, collected by Mr. Abbot
in Georgia, and furnished by the late Mr. Escher-Zollickofer of
Zurich.
4. A considerable number of Odonata, collected by the late Mr.
Guex at Bergen Hill in New Jersey, and communicated by Prof.
Schaum of Berlin.
5. A considerable number of Neuroptera from California, Ma-
ryland, Illinois, and North Red 'River (from Mr. Robert Kenni-
cott), furnished by Mr. P. R. Uhler of Baltimore.
6. Some species collected in Florida by Mr. Norton, and at
New York by Mr. Calverly.
VI PREFACE.
7. Other species collected in South Carolina by Mr. Zimmer-
mann, and furnished by the late Prof. Germar of Halle.
8. A considerable number of Neuroptera collected in Cuba and
furnished by Prof. Poey of Havana.
9. A considerable number of Neuroptera collected in Mexico
and supplied by Mr. de Saussure of Geneva.
10. My own collection, containing the types of Winthem, de-
scribed by Prof. Burmeister, and some species furnished by the
late Mr. Say.
11. Many species collected in the Russian colonies and in Cali-
fornia, communicated by Mr. Meuetries from the Imperial Museum
of St. Petersburg, and by Colonel Motschulsky.
12. The Neuroptera of North America of the Museum at Ber-
lin, furnished by Dr. Gerstaecker.
13. The Neuroptera of North America of the Museum at Yi-
enna, communicated by Mr. Kollar".
14. The Neuroptera of North America of the collection of the
Baron Selys Longchamps at Liege, with the types described by
Messrs. Ratnbur, Latreille, Palisot de Beauvois, contained in Ser-
ville's collection, and some supplied by Mr. Asa Fitch.
15. Some types, chiefly from Labrador, described by Mr. Bur-
meister, and contained in the collection of Mr. Sonirner at Altona.
16. The very great number of Neuroptera of the British Museum
in London, described by Mr. Fr. Walker, chiefly from Canada and
the polar regions, which I examined at London in 1857, with the
kind permission of Dr. J. E. Gray.
I have endeavored to cite the literature of the subject as com-
pletely as possible. Besides the printed works, I have taken ad-
vantage of written communications made by Mr. Haldeman and
Mr. Uhler on those species, which had been described by them. The
rare memoir of the late Mr. Say, "Godman's Western Quarterly
Reporter, Vol. II," could not be procured, except in a manuscript
copy kindly communicated by Baron Osten Sacken.
An exclamation mark (!) has been added to every species con-
tained in my own collection, or described by me from actual exa-
mination.
Where an (!) has been added to the name of the author, I have
seen the types which he described.
The foregoing statements show that the Synopsis has been prin-
cipally composed from species which I myself have examined, and
PREFACE. Til
which can be considered as undoubtedly fixed. There are, how-
ever, some, especially from the British Museum, which are not
entirely certain, the time I could spend at London not being suffi-
cient to determine all the species. The number, however, of spe-
cies mentioned in the Synopsis not examined by myself is but
small.
I have added a Catalogue of all the species of South American
Neuroptera hitherto described, and of the new species contained
in my collection. All the yet undescribed species have been added
to the present Catalogue, as their publication, which has already
partly been effected (Gomphidae), will soon be terminated.
There can be no doubt that the species named in the Synopsis
and in the Catalogue constitute only a fraction of the Neurop-
terous Fauna of America; may its incompleteness be soon shown
by a multitude of new discoveries.
DR. H. HAGEN.
KOENIGSBERG, 8th April, 1860.
Note. — The measurements given are in millimetres. A millimetre is
equal to .039 of the English inch, or about .04 (= z';). Multiplying,
then, any number of millimetres by four, and setting off two places of
decimals, will at once give us the inches and fractions.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Advertisement .......... iv
Preface v
Table of Contents ix
Authorities . . . . . xi
North American Neuroptera ....... xi
South American Neuroptera ....... xvi
Analytical tables .......... xix
Synopsis of North American Neuroptera ...... 1
PSEUDONEUROPTERA xix, 1
Fam. I. TERMITINA 1
Fam. II. EMBIDINA ...... 7
Fam. III. PSOCINA ...... 7
Fam. IV. PERLINA 14
Fam. V. EPHEMERINA ...... 38
Fam. VI.* ODONATA 55
Tribe I. Agrionina ..... 56
Sub-fam. I. Calopterygina ... 56
Sub-fam. II. Agrionina .... 62
Legion I. Pseudostigmata . . 62
Region II. Agrionina ... 65
Tribe II. Aeschnina ..... 98
Sub-fam. III. Gornphina .... 98
Sub-fam. IV. Aeschnina .... 117
Tribe III. Libellulina 132
Sub-fam. V. Cordulina . . . .132
Sub-fam. VI. Libelluliua . . . .141
NEUROPTERA xix, 187
Fam. VII. SIALINA 187
Fam. VIII. HEMEROBINA ..... 196
Fam. IX. PANORPINA ...... 240
* Erroneously given as Fam. V. on p. 55.
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Fam. X. PHRYGANINA ..... 249
Sub-fain. I. Phrygauides . . . 249
Sub-fam. II. Limnopbilides . . . 253
Sub-fam. III. Sericostomides . . . 270
Sub-fain. IV. Leptocerides . . . 275
Sub-fam. V. Hydropsychides . . 284
Sub-fain. VI. Rhyacophilides . . .295
List of South American Neuroptera.
PSEUDONEUROPTERA.
Fam. I. TERMITINA 299
Fam. II. EMBIDINA ...... 301
Fam. III. PSOCINA 302
Fam. IV. PERLIXA 302
Fain. V. EPHEMEKINA ..... 304
Fam. VI. ODONATA ...... 305
Tribe I. Agrionina ..... 305
Sub-fam. I. Calopterygina . . . 305
Sub-fain. II. Agrioniua .... 307
Tribe II. Aeschuina 312
Sub-fam. III. Gomphina . . . .312
Sub-fam. IV. Aeschnina . . . 314
Tribe III. Libellulina 315
Sub-fain. V. Cordulina .... 315
Sub-fam. VI. Libellulina . . .315
NEUROPTERA.
Fam. VII. SIALINA 321
Fam. VIII. HEMEROBINA 322
Fam. IX. PANORPINA ...... 327
Fam. X. PHRYGANINA 328
List of genera of North American Neuroptera 330
Distribution of species of do 333
List of genera of South American Neuroptera 334
Summary 336
Glossary 337
Index 345
Corrections and additions • 347
AUTHORITIES.
NORTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
Bartram, Jolm. — Observations on the Dragon-Fly, or Libellula of
Pennsylvania. Philos. Transact. 1750, XLVI, 323. Observations
upon the metamorphosis of the Oclonata in general.
Blanchard, Emile. — Histoire naturelle des Insectes, etc. Paris,
1840, 1841, etc. 3 vols. 150 pi. Contains description of some
typical forms from N. America, but no new species.
Les planches dans Cuvier regne animal, edit. Masson, 1836 — 1846,
8vo. Corydalis cornuta and Chauliodes pectinicornis are figured in
this work.
Browne, Patrice. — The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica.
London, 1789 (1756), fol. pp. 437. Four species of Odonata are
mentioned : "1. Tota viridis ; 2. Fusca tenuis, ad oculos et anum
coeruleo-nitens ; 3. Maxima rufula, pectore crassiori ; 4. Tenuior
tota coerulea. These insects are very common in Jamaica."
Burmeister, Hermann. — Haudbuch der Entomologie. Neurop-
tera, II, Part I. Berlin, 1839, 8vo. 60 species from N. America
are described in this work ; 36 of them are new.
Zoologischer Hand Atlas. Berlin, 1836— 1843. Fol., 41 pi. Termes
flavipes and its nympha are figured. (I have examined the types
of Mr. Burrneister.)
Coqueliert, Allt. JJoli. — Illustratio iconographica insectorum quse
in museis parisinis observavit J. C. Fabricius. Paris, 1799 — 1804.
Fol., 30 pi. Libellula eponina figured.
Curtis, Jolm. — Description of the Insects brought home by Com-
mander James Clark. Ross's Second Voyage. App. Nat. Hist. 1831,
4to. — pi. Tinodes hirtipes described.
Drury, Drew. — Illustrations of Natural History, etc. London, 1770
— 1782, 4to. 3 vols. (ed. Westwood, 1837). Several species are
figured and described.
Duncan, J. — Introduction to Entomology. London, 1840. Svo., — pi.
Libellula axillena figured by Mr. Westwood.
Xll AUTHORITIES.
EricIJSOll, Fr. W. — Beitraege zu einer Monographic von Mantispa.
Germar's Zeitschrift f. Entomologie, 1839, 8vo. I, Part I, 147 — 173,
1 pi. Contains three species.
Insekten in Schomburgk's Reise in Guyana, 1848, Svo. III. Con-
tains several species from the West Indies.
Falbricius, J. C. — Entomologia Systematica et Supplementa. Haf-
nise, 1792 — 1798, Svo. 5 vols. Seventeen species are described,
nine of them are new. (The same are contained in the works
previously published by this author, viz : Systema Entomologiae,
1775 ; Species Insectorum, 1781; and Mantissa Insectorum, 1787.)
Fatol'icillS, Otto. — Fauna Groenlandica. Hafnise, 1780, Svo. Contains
Libellula virgo (erroneously), Phryganea rJwmbica, Termes divina-
torium. See Schioedte.
Fitcls, Asa. — First Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects
of the State of New York. Albany, 1855, Svo. Thirty-six species
of Chrysopina and Hemerobina are described, mostly new.
— • Winter Insects of eastern New York, from Dr. Emmons' Journal of
Agricultxire and Science, 1847, vol. v, p. 274. Contains two spe-
cies of Boreus and two of Perla new to science.
De Geer, diaries. — Memoires pour servir a 1'histoire des insectes.
Stockholm, 4to, 1752 — 1778, 7 vols. Four species are described,
two of them new.
GielJel, C. G.— Fauna der Vorwelt, etc. Leipzig, Svo. 1856. T. II, P.
I, Insecta. Termes debilis included in gum Anime, described by
Prof. Heer, erroneously, as a succinic insect.
Gosse. — Canadian Naturalist. I have not seen this work, which contains
two new Pteronarcys.
Gray, G. R.— In E. Griffith's Animal Kingdom. London, 1824—1833.
Svo. 16 vols. Contains some new species.
Glleriii-UIeneville, F. E.— Iconographie duRegne animal. I have
not seen this work, which contains one new Palingenia.
Guilds lag, L,andsdo\viie. — The generic characters of Formicaleo,
with the description of two new species (from the West Indies).
Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 1829, vol. xvi, p. 47.
Hagen, H. — Monographic von Termes in Linnsea, X, XII, XIV. 1855 —
1860.
Revue des Odonates ; Monographic des Calopterygines ; Monogra-
phie des Gomphines. (cf. Selys Longchamps.)
Haldemail. — Description of the Agrion veneri-notatum. Proceed. Acad.
Philad. 1844. Termes nigriceps, ibid. 1853, June.
Corydaliis cornutus. Jourii. Acad. Boston, 1848, with plates.
Harris, Dr. T. W. — A Treatise on some of the Insects of New England,
which are injurious to Vegetation. Boston, 1852. I regret much,
not to have seen this excellent work. Contains one Chrysopa.
Heer, O. — Die Insectenfauua der Tertiaergebilde von Oeuingen uud
AUTHORITIES.
Radoboj. Leipzig, 1849, 4to. T. II. Contains Termes debilis as
succinic insect (included in Gum Anime).
K.il'l>y, W. — Fauna boreali- Americana, etc. Norwich, 1837, 4to. Con-
tains a List of arctic Insects, Libellula viryo and Phryganea rhom-
b/ca from 0. Fabricius, and Tinodes hirtipes from J. Curtis ; besides
p. 252 the descriptions of four species taken in lat. 65 — 68. Agrion
puella probably erroneously determined, and three new species,
Perla bicaudata (erroneously), Limnephilus ncbulosus suidfemoralis;
the descriptions are very incomplete.
K.lug, Friedr. — Monographic der Panorpatae. Act. Acad. Berolin.
1836, 4to., 1 plate. Contains five species, three new ones from. N.
America.
fi.oleiia.fi, F. — Genera et Species Trichopterorum. Part I. Prague,
1848, 4to. Contains three species from Greenland, Labrador, and
N. America, one of them new.
Systematisches Verzeichniss der dem Verfasser bekannten Phry-
ganiden und deren Synonymik. Wien. Entom. Monatschrift, T.
Ill, 1859, p. 15. Contains the names of six species from N. Ame-
rica, four of them new.
Genera et Species Trichopterorum. Part II. Nouv. Memoir, de la
Soc. Imper. des Naturalistes a Moscou. 1859, T. XI, 4. I have
not seen this work, which contains the descriptions of the species
mentioned in the foregoing work.
S4.oBIa !', V. — Naturgeschichte der schaedlichen Insekten. Wien, 1837,
4to. Contains Ttrmes flavipes, injurious in the warmhouses- of
Schoenbrunn and Vienna. This description has been omitted in
the translation of this work by Mr. London.
l,atrellle, P. — Histoire naturelle, etc. des Insectes. Paris, 8vo. 1792
—1805, vol. xiv.
Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum. Paris, 4to. 1806 — 1809, vol.
iv. Some species from N. America are described, but none of
them are new.
i.eidy, J. — Internal Anatomy of Corydalus cornutus in its three stages of
existence (with Haldeman).
Licliteiisteiii. — Catalogus musei ditissimi (Holthuisen). Hamburg,
1796, 8vo. Part III. Contains one new Ephemera.
ILinsie, C.— Systema Naturae ed. XII. 1767, 8vo. Contains three spe-
cies from N. America, two of which are described previously in
Centuria Insector. 1763, 4to., or in Amoeuit. Acad., vol. vi. The
ed. xiii, by Mr. Gmelin, contains several species described by dif-
ferent authors.
V. Motsclllllslty, V. — Two species of Termes from N. America are
mentioned in the Etudes Entomologiques, T. IV. I find mentioned
Etudes VIII, p. 11, two species of Phryganina from N. America,
Leptocera flexuosa Haldeman. and Leptocera 8-7naculata Haldeman.
I do not know if, or where, these species are described.
XIV AUTHORITIES.
E. — Several species, chiefly Perlina, are described in Ento-
mological Magaz., vol. v, and in Annals of Nat. History, vol. xiii,
by this author.
Wewport, Cr. — On the Genus Pteronarcys. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.,
vol. xx, and Annals of Nat. Histor., vol. xiii, contains, moreover,
some species of Perlina.
Olivier, G. — Encyclopedic methodique, vol. vii, 4to. Some species of
N. America are described by this author.
Palisot Beativois. — Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Arnerique.
Paris, 1805 — 1821, fol. Three species are described by this author.
Perty, M. — Delectus animalium articulatorum, etc. Monachise, 1830, 4to.
One species of Termes from the West Indies has been described.
Pictet, F. — Histoire naturelle, etc. des insectes Neuropteres. Part I,
Perlides ; Part II, Ephemerines. Geneve, 1841 — 1845, 8vo., with
pi. color. Numerous species are figured and described in this first-
rate work.
Reiclientoacii. — Volks-naturgeschichte. Termes flavipes has been
figured in this work.
RaiaalJim', P. — Histoire naturelle des Neuropteres. Paris, 1842, 8vo.,
with plates (forms a part of the Suites a Buffon, published by Ro-
ret). Numerous species are perfectly described, mostly new.
Say? Til. — Descriptions of insects belonging to the order Neuroptera
Linn. Latr., collected by the expedition authorized by J. C. Cal-
houn, etc. under the command of Major S. H. Long, in Godman's
Western Quarterly Reporter, 1823, vol. ii, No. 2, article iv, pp. 160,
165. This very rare work contains four species of Phryganina,
three Ephemerina, one Myrmeleou, one Bittacus, and four Perlina,
well described.
- Nine Species of Neuroptera (three Ephem., one Ascalaphus, two
Hemerob., one Chauliodes, two Phrygan.), in Keating's narrative
of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, etc., under the
command of Major Long. Philadelphia, 1824, 8vo., vol. ii, p. 205.
- American Entomology, vol. ii, 1825, Svo. Contains six figures (two
Mantispa and four Phryganea), described and figured.
- Descriptions of new N. American Neuropterous Insects, and obser-
vations on some already described by (the late) Th. Say. Journ.
Acad. of Nat. Sci. of Philadelphia, 1839, vol. viii, Part I, p. 9—46.
Contains the descriptions of forty-nine species (ten Aeschua, twen-
ty-one Libellula, three Calopteryx, three Lestes, four Agrion, four
Baetis, one Ephemera, two Formicaleo, one Chrysopa), mostly new
to science. Unfortunately the work of Prof. Burmeister was pub-
lished at the same time and contains some species described by
Mr. Say under different names.
Savigny, J. C. — Description de 1'Egypte. Paris, 1825, fol. Contains
the figure of one species of Libellula (L.jlavescens), found in N.
America.
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AUTHORITIES. XV
Scllioeclte, J. C. — Arthropoden Groenlands, in Rink, geographischer,
etc., Beschreibung Groenlands and in Berlin Entom. Zeitschr.,
1859, t. Ill, p. 134. Contains four species (one Ephem., one Hem-
erob., two Phrygan.).
Sclmeidei', W. G. — Symbols ad Monographiam generis Chrysopre
Leacli. Vratislavise, 1851, Svo., with plat, color. Contains seven
species, well described and figured.
De §elys L-ongclaamps, E. — Revue des Odonates ou Libellules
d'Europe avec la collaboration de H. Hagen. Paris, 1850, Svo.
(Memoir. Soc. R. Science de Liege, vol. vi). Two species, Lib.
hudsonica, p. 53, and Agrion Doubledayi, p. 209, are described in
this work.
Synopsis des Calopterygines. Bullet. Acad. Bruxelles, 1853, t. xx.
Monographic des Calopterygines avec collab. H. Hagen. Paris,
1854, Svo. (Mum. Soc. R. Science de Liege, vol. ?). Fourteen spe-
cies from N. America are described in this work.
• Synopsis des Gornphines. Bullet. Acad. Bruxell. 1854, t. xxi.
Monographic des Gomphines, avec collab. H. Hagen. Paris, 1857,
Svo. (Mem. Soc. R. Science de Liege, vol. ?). Thirty-four species
from N. America are described in this work.
Additions au Synopsis des Calopterygines. Bullet. Acad. Bruxell.
ser. 2, 1859, T. VII, No. 7.
Additions au Synopsis des Gomphines. Bullet. Acad. Bruxell.,
ser. 2, 1859, T. VII, No. 8.
Neuropteres de 1'isle de Cuba, de la Sagra Hist. Cuba, 1857, fol., T.
VII, p. 183—201, or in Poey, Ins. Cuba, 8vo., p. 435—473. Con-
tains thirty-nine species from the West Indies, chiefly Odonata ;
several of them are new to science.
Sloane, H. — A voyage to the islands Madeira, Barbadoes, Nieves, St.
Christopher's, and Jamaica, with the natural history, etc. of insects.
London, 1707 — 1725, fol., 2 vols. Ten species of Libellula from
Jamaica have been described in this work: 1. Libellula rufa major
(an L. abdominalis?) ; 2. L. rufa minor (an L. simplex?); 3. L.
maxima ccerulea aut viridis (an Aeschna ingens?) ; 4. L. purpurea
(Lib. discolor); 5. L. coerulea minor (Agrion spec.).
Stephens, J. F.— Illustrations of British Entomology. London, 8vo.,
1835. Mandibulata, vol. VI. Some species of European Neurop-
tera mentioned in this work have been found in N. America.
Swederuis, ST. §. — Two species of Panorpa have been described by this
author, Vetensk. Acad. nya Handl. Stockholm, 1787, T. VIII.
Uhler, P. R. — Contributions to the Neuropterology of the United States.
Proceed. Acad. of Nat. Sc. Philad., 1857, March, p. 87. Seven spe-
cies of Odonata are described.
Walker, F. — Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in
the Collection of the British Museum. London, 8vo., Part I, 1852
(Phryganides, Perlides), p. 1—192; Part II, 1853 (Sialidae— Ne-
XVI AUTHORITIES.
mopterides),p.l93 — 476; Part III. 1853 (Tennitidse— Ephemeridze),
p. 477— 585; Part IV, 1853 (Odonata, Calopterygiuse),p. 586 — 658.
In this work 234 species from N. America are described; numerous
of them are new, chiefly from Canada and the Arctic regions.
Wesiliael, C. — Sur les Hemerobides de Belgique. Bullet. Acad. Brux-
ell., 1841, vol. viii, p. 203. One species of Europe described here
has been found in N. America.
Westwood, J. O. — Monograph of the genus Panorpa. Trans. Entom.
Soc. Lond., vol. iv, with plates. Contains fourteen species from
N. America, some of them new.
On the genus Mantispa. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. i,
with plates. Contains three species from N. America.
Introduction to the modern Classification of Insects. London, 1840,
8vo., vol. ii. Contains Termes flavipes, figured.
Zetterstedt, J. W. — Insecta Lappouica. Lipsise, 1840, 4to. Some
species from Lapland have been found in the Arctic regions of N.
America.
SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
(The authorities mentioned above for North American Neuroptera are omitted.)
Blaiicliard, E.^-Insectes du voyage dans 1'AmSrique meridionale de
M. Alcide d'Orbigny. 4to. pi.
Insectes dans C. Gay historia fisica de Chili. Paris, 1851, 4to. I
have not seen this work; a few Neuroptera are described and
figured.1
Fisclier voii Waldlieilll, G. — Notice sur quelques Orthopteres et
Neuropteres du Bresil/ Bullet. Acad. Moscow, 1834, T. VII, p. 322,
1 pi. col. Two Mantispa are described and figured.
Hagen, H. — Neuroptera von Mossarnbic in Peters Reise, T. II. Written
and printed 1853, but not yet published. Two Terines from Bra-
zil are described.
Monographic der Gattung Oligoueuria. Stettin, Entomol. Zeit.
1856, T. XVI, p. 2G2.
Description of Mantispa chilensis, in Stettin. Entom. Zeit., 1859, T.
XX, p. 408.
i£irl}y? W. — Description of the Agrion briglitwdli in Trans. Linn. Soc.
London, 1825, T. XIV.
i Twenty-six new species are described, and most of them figured. (Osten Sackeu.)
AUTHORITIES. Xvii
liollar, V. — Brasiliens vorziiglich lastige Insecten in Dr. Pohl's Reise
in Brasilien. Wien, 1832, 4to. Two species of Termes are de-
scribed and figured.
Pictet, F. J. — Description de quelques nouvelles especes de Neurop-
teres du Musee de Geneve. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, 1836, T. VII,
p. 299. Bittacus blanchetti and Macronema lineatum are described
and figured.
Percheron, A. — Genera des Insectes, with pi. Paris, 1831, 8vo. (with.
M. Guerin). One species of Palingenia has been described.
lie t/ ins, A. — C. De Geer genera et species insectorum ex auctoris scrip-
tis extr. Lipsise, 1783, 8vo.
Rengger, J. — Reise nach Paraguay. Aarau, 1835, 8vo. Some species
of Termes have been described in this work.
Sel>a, A. — Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio
et iconibus expressio. Amsterdam, 1734 — 1764, fol., 4 vols. Few
species of Odonata are figured.
Serville, A. — Les Neuropteres, dans le t. X d'Encyclopedie methodique
de M. Olivier. (Mantispa semihyalina.)
Tlllinlierg, C. P. — Fauna Surinamensis. Upsalia, 1822, 4to.
Fauna Cayennensis. Upsaliao, 1823, 4to.
Fauna Brasiliensis. Upsalis, 1823, 4to.
Fauna Americse meridioualis. Upsalise, 1S23, 4to., 3 parts. I have
not been able to use this work, which contains the complete list of
all the species described, (cf. Stett. Entom. Zeit. XVIII, p. 202.)
Wel>er, F. — Observations entomologicse. Kiel, 1801, 8vo. (Ephemera
atrostoma.)
West wood, J. O. — Characters of Embia. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.,
1837, T. XVII, with pi.
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ANALYTICAL TABLE.1
SECTIONS.
SECTION I.— PSEUDONEUROPTERA ERICHS.
Mandibulate insects with an incomplete metamorphosis (active pupa) ;
lower lip mostly cleft ; four membranaceous, reticulate wings (rarely
with rudimentary wings or apterous) ; antennae either subulate, and
then the tarsi three- to five-articulate, or setiform, or filiform, in
which case the tarsi are two- to four-articulate.
FAMILIES. — Termitina, Embidina, Psocina, Perlina, Ephemerina,
Odonata.
SECTION II.— NEUROPTERA ERICHS.
Mandibulate insects with complete metamorphosis (inactive pupa) ;
lower lip entire ; four membranaceous, more or less reticulate wings
rarely with rudimentary wings or apterous) ; antennae setiform,
filiform, clavate, capitate, or pectinate ; tarsi five-articulate.
FAMILIES. — Sialina, flemerobina, Panorpina, Phryganina.
FAMILIES.
Four or two distinct wings ;
Antennae inconspicuous, subulate, short and slender.
Anterior and posterior wings nearly of the same length ; tarsi triarti-
culate. Fam. VI. ODONATA.
Posterior wings either smaller or wanting ; tarsi four- or five-articu-
late. Fam. V. EPHEMERINA.
Antennae mostly conspicuous, setiform, filiform, clavate, capitate, or
pectinate.
Tarsi two- or three-articulate ;
Wings equal. Fam. II. EMBIDINA.
1 These tables, prepared by Baron Ostea Sacken at the request of the Institution, are to
be considered as merely provisional in their nature, and as not aiming at a natural arrange-
ment of the families.
XX SYNOPSIS OF NEUROPTERA.
Wings unequal.
Posterior wings smaller. Fam. III. PSOCINA (in part).
Posterior wings broader, or at least of the same size with the
anterior ones. Fam. IV. PERLINA (in part). -
Tarsi four-articulate; wings equal. Fam. I. TERMITINA (in part). _
Tarsi five- (sometimes apparently four-articulate).
Posterior wings with no anal space ; not folded.
Mouth more or less rostrated. Fam. IX. PANORPINA (in part).
Mouth not rostrated (at the utmost only conical).
Fam. VIII. HEMEROBINA.
Posterior wings with a folded anal space.1
Wings reticulate. Fam. VII. SIALINA.
Transverse veins rather few. Fam. X. PHRYGANINA (in part).
Apterous, or with rudimentary wings ;
Mouth rostrated. Fam. IX. PANORPINA (in part).
Mouth not rostrated.
Tarsi five-articulate. Fam. X. PHRYGANINA (in part).
Tarsi four-articulate. Fam. I. TERMITINA (in part).
Tarsi three-articulate.
Apterous, or with two rudimentary wings of a leathery substance.
Fam. III. PSOCINA (in part).
Four rudimentary wings, still with distinct neuration.
Fam. IV. PERLINA (in part).
i The anal space is absent in a few Phryganina.
NEUKOPTEKA
OF
NORTH AMERICA
SECTION I. PSEUDONEUKOPTERA.
FAM. I. TERMITLNA.
Body depressed, ovate; head free; wings equal, mem-
branaceous, deciduous ; tarsi 4-articulate.
CALOTERMES HAGEN.
Head small, two ocelli ; prothorax large, transverse, oblong ;
costal area veined ; tarsi furnished with an apical plautula.
1. C. castaneus !
Termes castaneus Burm. ! II. 764, 3. — Term.es anticus Walk.! Catal. 523,
31. — Termes guatimalce Walk.! Catal. 528, 38. — Caloterm. castaneus
Hag.! Linn. XII, 38, 1 ; tab. ii, fig. 2 ; tab. iii, fig. 2.
Chestnut-color, beneath, antenna? and feet luteous ; the wings
tinged with brown, margin and costal veins infuscate ; head ellip-
tical; prothorax quadrangular, anteriorly a little sinuated; median
nervule approaching the subcostal one, its apex bifurcated.
Var. Smaller, pale, wings hyaline. (Cuba, St. Domingo.)
Length to tip of wings 13 — 20 millimetres. Length of body
6 — 8 millim. Expanse of wings 23 — 36 millira.
Hob. San Francisco, California (Chamisso) ; Honduras (Miller) ;
Guatimala (Deby) ; Cuba; Porto-Rico; St. Domingo, Port-au-
Prince (Ehrenberg) ; Columbia, Venezuela (Moritz, Appun) ;
-Brazil (Olfers) ; Pvio (Schott) ; St. Leopoldo ; Chile; Isle of
France (?). Collection of de Selys Longchamps.
NOTE. — An exclamation point after the specific name at the head of an
article shows that the description has been made by the author from a spe-
cimen. When placed after a reference, it shows that the author has seen
the type of the description.
1
2 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
2. C. marginipennis !
Termes marginipenne Latr.! Humboldt, Recueil, II, 111 ; tab. xxxix,
fig. 8. — Term, mexicanus Walker! Catal. 528,39. — Caloterm. mar-
ginipennis Hag.! Linn. XII, 47, 6 ; XIV, 100.
Fulvous, beneath, antennas and feet luteous ; wings whitish,
margin and costal veins yellowish ; head square ; prothorax. square,
anteriorly emarginate ; median and subcostal veins separated.
A smaller specimen from San Diego does not differ in coloring.
Var. Smaller, fuliginous, beneath, antenna? and feet fuscous ;
wings dirty-fuscous, margin and costal veins infuscate. (California.)
Length to tip of wings 18 — 19 millimetres. Body 7 — 8 millim.
Expanse of wings 31 millim.
Hab. Mexico (Humboldt, Muehlenpford, Deppe) ; Cuantla
(Saussure) ; San Francisco and San Diego, California.
3. C. posticus !
Calotermes posticus Hag.! Linn. XII, G7, 15.
Piceous, base of the antennae and feet bright yellow ; wings
; head square ; prothorax oblong.
Length of body 4^ millim.
Hab. St. Thomas (Moritz).
4. C. brevis !
Termes breris Walk.! Catal. 524, 33— Term, indecisus Walk.! Catal. 524,
32.— Term, flavicollis Walk.! (in part) Catal. 502, 1 (Imago), 503
(Soldier).— Term, lucifinjus Walk, (in part)! Catal. 505. 3.— Calo-
term. brevis Hag.! Linn. XII, 68, 16; tab. ii, fig. 6; tab. iii, fig. 5.
Linn. XIV, p. 101.
Fulvous, beneath, antenna? and feet pale ; wings hyaline, costal
veins yellowish, linear, head square ; prothorax large, oblong,
anteriorly emarginate ; median nervure distant, curved before the
apex, united to the subcostal one.
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Body 4 millim. Expanse of
wings 16 millim.
Hab. Mexico (Deppe), Yera-Cruz (Salle) ; Central America ;
Jamaica (Gosse); Cuba (Poeppig, Osten Sacken) ; St. Thomas
(Moritz), St. Fe de Bogota; Brazil (Olfers, Schott, Natterer,
Kuemmel).
The variety from Mexico has the median nervure, sometimes not
curved, nor joined to the subcostal one. Is it a distinct species ?
TERMOPSIS — TERMES. 3
TERMOPSIS HEEK.
Head large ; ocelli absent ; prothorax small ; costal area veined ;
tarsi with an apical plantula.
1. T. angtisticollis !
Termes castaneus Walk.! Catal. 506, 4. — Termops. angitsticollis Hag.!
Linn. XII, 75, 1 ; tab. ii, fig. 1 ; tab. iii, figs. 6, 41. Linn. XIV,
101.
Rufous, beneath paler, mouth infuscate ; wings dusky hyaline,
costal veins rufous ; head oval, flat ; prothorax small, semicircular.
Length to tip of wings 26 millim. Body 11 millim. Expanse
of wings 46 millim.
Hab. Louisiana (Pfeiffer) ; San Francisco, California (Hart-
weg) ; Ft. Steilacoom, Puget Sound (Dr. Suckley).
^
2. T. occidentis !
Termes occidentis Walk.! Catal. 529, 41. — Termops. occidentis Hag.!
Linn. XII, 77, 2 ; tab. i, fig. 8. Linn. XIV, 101.
Soldier. Fulvous, broad, head thick, rounded ; prothorax ante-
riorly strongly emargiuate ; meso- and metathorax with the poste-
rior angles produced.
Length of body 14 millim.
Hab. West coast of Central America (Wood).
The genus of this species is doubtful; it may, perhaps, be Ter-
mopsis angusticollis Hagen.
TERMES LINN.
Head large, rounded, two ocelli ; prothorax heart-shaped,
small ; costal area free ; plantula absent.
1. T. flavipes !
Termes flavipes Kollar! Naturgesch. schadl. Ins. 411. Burm. II, 768, 14.
Burm. Zoolog. Hand-atlas, tab. xxvii, figs. 9, 10. Westw.! Intro-
duct. II, 14; tab. Iviii, figs. 12, 14, 15. Hag.! Linn. XII, 182, 26 ;
XIV, 107. Reichenbach Volksnaturgescli. fig. col. Latr. Diction,
d'hist. nat. XXII. Termes fron tale Haldem.! (teste Osten Sacken),
Proc. Acad. Philad. 1844, II, 55.
Chestnut color ; head and prothorax black-brown ; antennae
brownish, annulated with pale ; mouth, tibiae and tarsi yellow ;
4 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
wings whitish, a little roughened, costal veins yellowish ; head
quadrangular, flat, with a distinct fovea in the middle, ocelli dis-
tant, prothorax cordiforra.
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Body 5 millim. Expanse of
wings 16 millim.
Hub. U. S. (Bosc, Beauvois, Schaum) ; Cleveland, Ohio (Le
Coiite) ; Cincinnati ; Paduca (Motschulsky) ; Pennsylvania (Hal-
deman) ; Maryland (Uhler) ; Washington (Osten Sacken) ; Caro-
lina (Zimmerman) ; Eutaw, Alabama ; Florida (Osten Sacken) ;
Mexico, Matamoras, Tamaulipas (Couch) ; Europe (Plant-bouses
of Schonbrunn, Kollar).
Specimens from Florida are smaller and paler, but not distinct.
2. T. morio!
Termes morio Latr.! Hist. Nat. XIII, 69, 3. Diet, d'hist. nat. XXII, 3.
Burm.l II, 767, 11. Hagen ! Linn. XII, 201, 34; tab. iii, fig. 29.
Linn. XIV, 122. — Termes cornigera Motschulsky! Etudes Entom.
IV, 10.
Pitchy-black ; antennae, mouth, feet and venter yellowish ; wings
opaque, blackish-gray, costal veins black-brown ; head flat, quad-
rangular, a bifid impressed line upon the middle ; ocelli large,
distant ; prothorax small, semicircular.
Length to tip of wings 12 — 14 millim. Body 5 to 6 millim.
Expanse of wings 22 — 25 millim.
Hob. Guatirnala (Sivers); Panama (Motschulsky); St. Domingo
(Ehrenberg) ; Porto-Rico (Moritz) ; Martinique ; Venezuela (Mo-
ritz, Appun) ; Santarem, Brazil (Bates).
Nasuti and workers from Matanzas, Cuba (Osten Sacken), seem
to belong here.
3. T. debilis !
Termes debilis Heer ! Insektenfauna der Tertiiirgebilde 11,35, 19; tab.
iii, fig. 6 (contained in gum copal). Giebel, Fauna der Vorwelt, II,
295. — Termes morio Burm. (in part) II, 767, 11.— T. debilis Hag.!
Linn. XII, 205, 38 ; tab. iii, fig. 30.
Brownish-black, antennas annulated with white ; mouth, feet
and middle of the venter yellowish ; wings opaque, blackish-gray,
costal veins fuseous ; head convex, square, an impressed point
upon the middle ; ocelli small, approaching the eyes ; prothorax
small, rounded.
Length to tip of wings 8^ millim. Body Si millim. Expanse
of wings 16 millim.
TERMES. 5
Hob. Porto-Rico (Moritz) ; Brazil, Congonhas (Burmeister).
Frequently found iu gum copal.
4. T. Rippertii !
Termes Rippertii Rarnb.! Neuropt. 308, 15. — Walk.! Catal. 520, 4;
Hagen ! Linu. XII, 218, 47 ; tab. ii, fig. 13 ; tab. iii, fig. 32. Linu.
XIV, 118. — Termes destructor Perty ! Delect. 127; tab. xxv, fig. 9.
Ferrugineous, head piceous, fulvous in front; the antennse,
feet, prothorax and abdomen beneath in the middle luteous ; wings
opaque, yellowish-gray, costal veins rufous ; head flat, with an
impressed line ; eyes very prominent, ocelli close to the eyes ;
prothorax semicircular, short.
Length to tip of wings 14 — 18 rnillim. Body 5 — 7 niillim.
Expanse of wings 27 — 35 millim.
Hob. Havana, Cuba (Rippert) ; Trinidad (Osten Sacken) ; Ja-
maica (Gosse) ; Columbia (Moritz) ; Brazil (Spix) ; Ypanema
(Natterer) ; New-Freiburg (Beschke) ; Isle of France ? (Collect.
de Selys).
A damaged specimen from Vera Cruz (Salle) seems to belong
here.
5. T. lividus !
Termes lividus Burm.! II, 767, 12. Walk. Catal. 515, 13. Hageu ! Linn.
XII, 221, 49 ; tab. iii, fig. 33.
Testaceous, the mouth, middle of the prothorax, antennae, feet,
and margins of the abdominal segments luteous ; wings opaque,
yellowish gray, costal veins rufous ; head small, flat, a small yellow
line upon the middle, ocelli large, approaching the eyes ; prothorax
almost orbicular.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Body 6 millira. Expanse
of wings 27 millim.
Hal). Port au Prince, St. Domingo (Ehrenberg).
6. T. armiger !
Termes armiger Motscliulsky ! Etud. Ent. IV, 10. Hagen ! Liun. XII,
228, 52 ; tab. i, fig. 1.
A nasute soldier. Rufous; thorax and feet a little paler ; head
pear-shaped, large, anteriorly porrected into a long nose ; mandi-
bles ensiform ; prothorax small, anterior lobe narrow, recurved,
anterior angles prominent, depressed, posterior margin rounded.
Length of body 6| millim.
6 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Hal. Panama, Obispo (Motschulsky).
Imago unknown.
7. T. tennis !
Termes tennis Hagen ! Linn. XII, 231, 57 ; tab. iii, fig. 35.
Pale yellow; head and protborax a little brownish; wings
opaque, pale whitish-yellow, the costal veins luteous ; head oblong,
convex, a salient point in the middle ; ocelli absent ; prothorax
quadrangular.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Body 3 millim. Expanse
of wings 20 millirn.
Hob. St. Domingo, Port au Prince (Ehrenberg) ; Columbia
(Moritz); Brazil (Helm).
The ocelli, which are present in the other species, are absent in
this. In other respects it belongs to the genus.
I
8. T. simplex!
Termes simplex Hag.! Linn. XII, 238, 60 ; tab. iii, fig. 23.
Fulvous, antennae and feet yellowish, wings hyaline, a little
roughened, costal veins yellowish ; head rounded, convex, a dis-
tinct fovea upon the middle, ocelli small, closely approximate ;
prothorax flat, semicircular ; wings with the median nervure ab-
sent.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Body 5 millim. Expanse
of wings 17 millim.
Hub. Cuba (Poeppig).
An anomalous species. Only a single, very much damaged,
specimen seen.
9. T. nigriceps.
Termes nigriceps Haldeman, Proceed. Acad. Pliilad. 1853, June, VI,
3G5.— Hag. Linn. XII, 230, 55.
Workers and soldiers nasute ; head blackish-brassy, pyriform,
nasute, antennre, feet and body yellow.
Length of body 3 millirn.
Hob. Western Mexico (Leconte). Unknown to me.
10. T. strenuus !
Termes strenuus Hagen! Linn. XIV, 105.
Fuscous, villose ; mouth, antenna?, feet and margins of the
CLOTHILLA.
abdominal segments fulvous ; wings opaque, brown, costal margin,
yellow, subcostal and basal veins blackish-brown ; head rather
large, opaque, rounded, flat, impressed in the middle, brassy, ocelli
rather small, distant ; prothorax semicircular, opaque.
Length to tip of wings 22 — 25 millim. Body 8 — 10 millim.
Expanse of wings 42 — 47 millim.
Hob. Yera Cruz, Mexico (Salle).
11. T. fumosus !
Termes fumosus Hagen! Linn. XIV, 123. — Perhaps imago of Termes
nigriceps.
Blackish-brown, brassy; antennae blackish-brown annulated with
pale ; mouth, venter and feet yellowish-brown, tibice a little ob-
scure; wings opaque, dark-smoky, costal veins blackish-brown,
the rest fuscous; head flat, rounded, anteriorly bi-impressed ;
ocelli rather large, distant ; prothorax hardly narrower than the
head, semicircular.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Body 6 millim. Expanse
of wings 24 millim.
Nab. Vera Cruz, Mexico (Salle).
I have seen similar specimens, badly preserved, from Matamoras,
Tamaulipas. They may be distinct.
FAM. II. EMBIDINA.
Body depressed, linear; head free; wings equal, mem-
branous ; tarsi triarticulate.
I have seen a specimen (perhaps a larva) without wings, not
well preserved, from Cuba (Gundlach, Berlin Museum). Pale
fuscous. Length of body 4 millim. Belonging to the genus
Olyniha ? It is probably a new species.
FAM. III. PSOCINA.
Body oval ; head free ; prothorax small, obtected ; wings
unequal, sometimes wanting ; tarsi two- or three-articulate.
CLOTHILLA WESTWOOD.
(Lepinotus von Hey den ; Paradoxenus and Paradoxides Motsch.)
Ocelli absent ; wings incomplete, coriaceous ; tarsi triarticulate.
8 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
1. C. picea!
Paradoxenus piceus Motschulsky ! in lit.
Entirely piceous, with a brassy reflection.
The specimen seen was imperfect ; the wings were wanting.
Length of body 1 millim.
Hab. California.
ATROPOS LEACH.
Ocelli and wings absent ; tarsi triarticulate.
1. A. divinatorius.
Termes divinatorius 0. Fab. Fn. Groenl. 214, 181.
Pale, mouth fuscous, eyes black, anus obscure (Descript. from
Fab.)
Length 1 millim. ?
Hal. Greenland. In old books. Perhaps it is A. pulsatorius
Leach.
•
PSOCUS LATE.
Three ocelli; wings membranaceous, rather unequal; tarsi two-
or three-articulate.
•j- Tarsi three-articulate.
* Discoidal cellule closed, quadrangular.
1. P. sparsus !
Psocus sparsus Hagen !
Fuscous, varied with yellow and white ; nasus lineated with
grayish-fuscous, front yellow, punctured and lineated with black ;
antenna? rather slender, pale ; the two basal joints thicker, yel-
low, black at base ; thorax fuscous, varied with yellow ; femora
fuscous, annulated with pale before the apex, tibite and tarsi pale,
with the apex fuscous ; anterior wings opaque, fuscous, densely
varied with yellow and gray, veins yellow, spotted with fuscous ;
pterostigma triangular ; posterior wings a little smoky, costal
margin at the apex interruptedly fuscous and yellow.
Length to tip of wings G millim. Expanse of anterior wings
11 millim.
Hal). Washington (Osten Sacken, 1858) ; Baltimore (Uhler).
PSOCUS. 9
2. P. lugens !
Psocus lugens Hagen !
Fuscous, varied with white ; nasus fuscous, lineatecl with gray ;
front fuscous, occiput striated with whitish ; antennce rather slen-
der, brownish, two basal articulations thicker, apex pale, setce
with the apical articulations whitish; thorax fuscous, margined
with white ; femora fuscous, annulated with pale before the apex;
tibia? and tarsi paler, at the apex fuscous ; anterior wings opaque,
fuscous, densely varied with gray, margin and veins marked with
white points ; pterostigma triangular ; posterior wings a little
smoky, costal margin at the apex interruptedly white and fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 4^ millim. Expanse of anterior wings 8
millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken, 1857).
* * Discoidal cellule open, absent.
3. P. signatus !
Psocus signatus Hagen !
Blackish-fuscous ; eyes globose, distant, prominent ; nasus
blackish-fuscous, lineated with gray ; front each side anteriorly
with an oblique band, and a whitish yellow point upon the occiput ;
thorax margined with yellow; abdomen luteous; feet luteous,
tarsi blackish-fuscous ; wings hyaline, veins fuscous, pterostigma
narrow, linear, blackish-fuscous, posterior margin at base fuscous;
cellule at the posterior margin free, elliptically triangular.
Length to tip of wings 5 millim. Expanse of anterior wings 9
millim.
Hob. New York.
It is very much like Psocus immunis Stephens (naso, Kambur),
but differs a little in the reticulation of the wings. Is it distinct ?
4. P. pumilis !
Psocus pumilis Hagen !
Pale luteous ; nasus brassy-fuscous, obsoletely lineated with
gray ; front with a medial, longitudinal, blackish-fuscous stripe,
two incurved fuscous lines at the eyes ; thorax marked with fus-
cous ; the feet pale luteous ; anterior wings pale grayish hyaline,
pterostigma, interrupted basal band and the margin behind the
10 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
base fuscous, veins fuscous ; pterostigma short, rounded ; cellule
of the posterior margin free, elliptical.
Length to tip of wings 3d millim. Expanse of anterior wings
6 millim.
Hal>. New York.
\ f Tarsi tivo-articulate.
* Discoidal cellule closed, quadrangular.
5. P. venosus !
Psocus renosus Burm.! II, 778, 10; Walk. Catal. 484, 9. — Ps. magnus
Walk.! Catal. 484, 10. — Ps. microphthalmus Ramb. Neur. 321, 6. —
Ps. aceris Fitcli! MSS. Collection of de Selys Longcliamps.
Fuscous; head brassy, antennos blackish-fuscous (in the male
rather thicker, pilose), the two basal articulations luteous ; thorax
margined with yellow ; the feet luteous, tarsi fuscous ; anterior
wings fuscous or blackish-fuscous, pterostigma triangular, yellow-
ish ; basal veins yellowish, apical ones fuscous ; posterior wings
smoky-hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 6 — 8 millim. Expanse of anterior wings
12—15 millim.
Hob. New York (Winthem, Asa Fitch, Uhler) ; Washington
{Osten Sacken, 1858) ; Mount Pleasant, Ohio ; Mexico (Deppe) ;
Cuba (Riehl, Poey) ; Maryland (Uhler).
Specimens communicated by Baron Osten Sacken are a little
smaller, blacker, with the apex of the tibiae black ; but they belong
to this species.
6. P. contaminatus !
Psocus contaminatus Hagen !
Fuscous; nasus yellow, scarcely lineated with obscure brown;
the front luteous, two occipital spots, two at the nasus and two at
the ocelli black ; antenna? rather slender, fuscous ; thorax black,
margined with yellow ; the feet luteous, knees and tarsi fuscous ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma triangular, blackish-fuscous ; apical
margin with a large band attaining to the inferior angle of the
pterostigma and a spot upon the middle of the posterior margin,
cloudy-fuscous ; posterior wings hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Expanse of anterior wings
13 millim.
PSOCUS. 11
Hal. New York ; Maryland (Uhler) ; Washington (Osten
Sacken) ; Yera Cruz, Mexico (Salle).
7. P. novae scotiae !
Psocus novae scotise Walk. Catal. 485, 12. — Psocus crataegi Fitch. Col-
lection of de Selys Longchamps.
Blackish-fuscous ; head pale yellow, two spots upon the occiput
and two at the eyes black ; front fuscous in the middle ; antenna?
black ; thorax black, margined with yellow ; feet testaceous, tibia?
at apex and tarsi pitchy ; wings hyaline, anterior ones with four
fuscous spots, one at the pterostigma, another at the apex, the
rest at the posterior margin, the basal one joined to an obscure
spot ; veins black.
Length to tip of wings 6 millim. Expanse of anterior wings
12 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman) ; New York (Asa Fitch).
8. P. moestus !
Psocus moestus Hag.!
Brownish-black, spotted with yellow ; nasus yellow, lineated with
fuscous, and fuscous in front ; occiput yellow, varied with fuscous,
antennce rather slender, pale, the two basal articulations fuscous ;
apex yellow ; thorax and abdomen brownish-black ; femora fus-
cous, knees yellow, tibia? pale, their apex and the tarsi fuscous ;
wings milky-hyaline, densely spread with small fuscous points,
veins fuscous, basal ones yellow; pterostigma triangular, the in-
ternal angle yellow.
Length to tip of wings 4^ millim. Expanse of anterior wings
8 millim.
Hub. Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sacken).
9. P. striatus !
Psocus striatus Walk.! Catal. 486, 16.
Pallid ; nasus yellow lineated with black ; front yellow, a band
upon the middle and punctiform lines at the eyes black ; eyes of
the male globose, prominent, rather approximate ; antennas fus-
cous, two basal articulations pale ; antenna? of the male thicker,
the seta hairy ; thorax black marked with yellow ; abdomen yellow,
a black fascia upon the middle; feet pallid, femora fuscous above,
12 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
tarsi fuscous ; wings hyaline, pterostigma large triangular, acute,
fuscous, internal angle paler ; posterior margin at base and a
discoidal nebula fuscous ; posterior wings hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 6£ millim. Expanse of anterior wings
2 millim.
Hal). Nova Scotia (Redman) ; New York, Washington (Osten
Sacken, 1857) ; Pennsylvania (Zimmerman).
10. P. quietus !
Psocus quietus Hag.!
Luteous ; the nasus luteous lineated with black, a spot at base
and two anteriorly black; front luteous varied with black; antenna?
pale ; thorax black ; feet pale luteous, tibia? at base and apex
obscurer ; wings hyaline, veins luteous, pterostigma triangular,
inferior angle rounded, obscure.
Length to tip of wings 5 millim. Expanse of anterior wings
9 millim.
Hob. New York; Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sackeu).
* * Discoidal cellule open, absent.
11. P. mobilis !
Psocus mobilis Hag.!
Pale brown, hairy ; wings hyaline, pterostigma narrow, ovate ;
cellule at the posterior margin free, elliptical.
Length to tip of wings 2| millim. Expanse of anterior wings
4f millim.
Hal). Cuba (von Winthem). Described from a single damaged
specimen.
12. P. madidus !
Psocus madidus Hag.!
Pale luteous ; nasus brassy fuscous, lineated with obscure gray,
two spots upon the occiput and a third upon the front black;
antenna? pallid ; tibia? obscurer at base ; wings pale gray, with two
paler obsolete bands, the veins luteous; pterostigma narrow, ovate;
no posterior marginal cellule.
Length to tip of wings 3j millim. Expanse of anterior wings
6 millim.
Hab. New York ; Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sacken).
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13. P. abruptus !
Psocus abruptus Hag.!
Brown, hairy ; head and thorax brassy ; antenna very slender,
whitish, the apical joints infuscate at their tip ; posterior femora
fuscous, whitish at apex ; anterior wings brown with a brassy re-
flection, a narrow, transverse, hyaline band before the apex, veins
ciliated : pterostigrna elongated, ovate ; no cellule at the posterior
rnaugin ; posterior wings grayish-hyaline. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Expanse of anterior wings 7
millim.
Hob. Washington ; Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sackeu).
14. P. corruptus !
Psocus corruptus Hag.!
Pale brown, hairy ; head and thorax brassy; eyes rather promi-
nent, globose, front narrower than in the preceding; antennte
thicker, hairy, seta fuscous, all the articulations pale at base ; feet
pale ; anterior wings shining brassy-brown, pterostigma brown ; a
spot before the apex, upon the costal margin and a discoidal cloud,
grayish-hyaline ; veins with fuscous cilia ; posterior wings grayish-
hyaline. (Male.)
Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Expanse of anterior wings 7
millim.
Hal. Washington (Osten Sacken, 1858) ; Dalton, Georgia
(Osten Sacken).
Reticulation of the wings as in the preceding. Is it the other
sex of that species ?
The reticulation in Ps. abruptus and Ps. corruptus is abnormal,
and may constitute a distinct subgenus, or rather genus.
15. P. salicis !
Psocus salicis Fitch ! Collection of de Selys Longcharnps.
Very small, brown; head and thorax brassy; month yellow;
eyes very small, front broad ; antenna? very slender, villose, apex
obscurer ; feet pale ; wings hyaline, veins brown ; pterostigma
hyaline, anteriorly truncated ; posterior marginal_cellule elliptical.
Length to tip of wings H millim. Expanse of wings 3 millim.
Hub. New York (Asa Fitch).
14 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
16. P. aurantiacus !
Psocus aurantiacus Hag.!
Orange-colored, shining ; head bright orange, occiput in the
middle dusky ; antennas pale, brownish-black at the apex ; thorax
orange with four cloudy spots upon the dorsum ; feet yellow, tarsi
fuscous at the apex ; abdomen yellow ; wings yellowish-hyaline,
pterostigma bright yellowish green ; veins yellow, apical ones
fuscous ; cellule of the posterior margin orbicular. (Female.).
Length to tip of wing 3j millim. Expanse of wings 6 millim.
Hob. Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sacken).
FAM. IV. PERLINA.
Body depressed, elongated, parallel; prothorax large; an-
tennas long, setaceous; wings unequal, posterior ones
broader ; tarsi three-articulate.
•j- Two abdominal setce.
* Wings charged with many irregular transverse veins.
PTERONARCYS NEWMAN.
Winys densely net-veined ; palpi setaceous ; mandibles mem-
branaceous. This genus is very abnormal on account of its imago
being furnished with external branchiae.
1. P. proteus!
Pteronarcys proteus Newman! Entoin. Mag. V, 177, 3. Walk.! Catal.
139, 1. Gosse, Canadian Naturalist, fig. — , p. 232.
Fuscous, head broader than the prothorax ; antennas paler at
base ; sides of the prothorax emarginate, a little broader poste-
riorly, an interrupted yellow line upon the middle. (Is it so always?)
Feet yellowish-fuscous, knees yellow; abdomen beneath yellowish;
the caudal seta? luteous, paler at base ; <£ last ventral segment
yellowish, narrower, sparsely punctured ; 9 ? antepenultimate seg-
ment truncated, armed with two distant, conical, yellowish append-
ages ; wings pale grayish-hyaline, veins fuscous, clouded.
Length to tip of wings 38 — 48 millim. Expanse of wings
73 — 90 millim.
Hob. Trenton Falls, Xew York (Doubleday) ; Mackenzie River
district (Richardson) ; North Red River (Robt. Kennicott).
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2. P. regalis !
Pteronarcys regalis Newrn.! Entorn. Mag. V, 176, 1. Newm.! Annals
Nat. Hist. XIII, 21. Pictet, Perlides, 134. Ann. Sci. Nat. I, 183.
Newport ! Trans. Linn. Soc. XX, p. 425 ; tab. xxi, fig. 1—11 ; 14—
17. Froriep, Notiz. XXX, 179. Walker! Catal. 140, 3. P. proteus
Pictet, Perl. 128, 1 ; tab. xxix, fig. 1—6. Ramb. Neuropt. p. 449.
Fuscous, head as broad as the prothorax ; antennas pitchy ;
sides of the prothorax emarginate, not broader behind, a narrow,
yellow line upon the middle ; feet fuscous ; abdomen fuscous, apex
yellowish ; caudal setas fuscous, at base yellowish ; £ last ventral
segment yellowish ; 9 antepenultimate segment produced, in the
middle a broad, quadrangular excision ; wings grayish-hyaline,
before the apex a little clouded with fuscous, veins fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 44 — 48 millim. Expanse of wings 76
84 millim.
Hal>. Canada ; Mackenzie and Slave River districts (Richard-
son) ; St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barnston) ;
Philadelphia.
3. P. biloba!
Pteronarcys biloba Newm.! Entom. Mag. V, 176, 2. Pictet, Perl. 135.
Walk.! Catal. 140, 3.
Brownish-black; head narrower than the prothorax ; prothorax
not emarginated at the sides, posteriorly a little broadened, a line
upon the middle yellow ; feet brownish-black ; abdomen brownish-
black, beneath in the middle with a broad, yellowish band ; caudal
setas brownish-black ; 9 antepenultimate ventral segment blackish-
brown, produced, incised in the middle ; wings grayish-hyaline,
before the apex a little clouded with fuscous, veins fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 46 millim. Expanse of wings 84 millim.
Hob. Trenton Falls ; St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hud-
son's Bay (Barnston) ; Minnesota (Osten Sacken).
I have seen the typical specimens in the British Museum ; but
I am not certain whether the female from Minnesota belongs here.
4. P. 110 bills !
Pteronarcys nobilis Hagen !
Black, head broader than the prothorax ; antenna? black ; pro-
thorax quadrangular, sides straight, a yellow line narrowed in the
middle; feet black ; abdomen black, beneath with a broad orange
16 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
band ; caudal setas black, piceous at base ; £ last ventral segment
deep black ; 9 antepenultimate one truncated, orange, two short
setiform appendages ? (they cannot be clearly seen) ; wings gray-
ish-hyaline, clouded with fuscous, veins fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 31 — 34 inillim. Expanse of wings 55 —
66 raillim.
Hab. New York.
Does the "smaller, new species" from Sherbrooke, Lower
Canada (Gosse, Canadian Naturalist), belong here ?
5. P. californica.
Pteronarr.ys californicus Newp.! Trans. Linn. Soc. XX, 450. Proceed.
Linn. Soc. I, 388. Walk.! Catal. 140, 5.
Fuscous ; labrurn, clypeus and front rufous ; prothorax with an
interrupted, yellow line upon the middle ; abdomen orange-yellowish,
the sides fuscous, the last ventral segment broad, pilose, the apex
deeply incised ; caudal sette at base yellow ; antennae and feet
black ; wings with obscure black veins, pterostigmal spot absent.
(Description taken from that of Mr. Newport.) (Male.)
Almost the size of P. proteus.
Hab. California (Hartweg).
I saw the species in the British Museum, but I am not now able
to furnish a more accurate description.
6. P. insignis.
Kollaria insignis Pictet, Perl. 123 ; tab. iv, fig. 1 — 8. Walker, Catal.
138,1.
Fuscous; head equal in width to prothorax ; prothorax quadran-
gular, on middle a yellow line ; abdomen black, segments margined
behind with yellow; feet yellowish-brown, knees yellowish ; caudal
set£e fuscous, yellow at base ; 9 antepenultimate ventral segment
truncated, two very short setiform appendages? (from the figure) ;
wings grayish-hyaline, before the apex clouded with fuscous ;
maxillary palpi very long.
(Description taken from the description and figure of Pictet.)
Length to tip of wings 53 millim. Expanse of wings 86 millim.
Hab. The locality unknown. Yienna Museum. It has the
habitus of an American insect. I have not seen the typical spe-
cimen : from the figure and description of Pictet it seems to be a
Pteronarcys. The generic character is derived from the length of
PERLA. 17
the maxillary palpi : it is, however, of doubtful importance. The
species, perhaps, is P. biloba.
* * Wings with few, but rather regular, transverse
veins.
PERLA GEOFFEOT.
Wings veiny, transverse veins few, very regular; posterior wings
with the anal space large, plicated ; palpi setaceous ; two caudal
setas.
O The submarginal, apical space of the anterior wings
with some transverse veins. Subgenus Acroneuria
Pictet.
1. P. abnormis !
Perla abnormis Newm.! Entom. Mag. V, 177. Pict. Perl. 180, 12. Walker!
Catal. 147, 21.— P. arenosa Pict.! Perl. 178, 11; tab. x, fig. 1—2.
Walker, Catal. 147, 19.— P. pennsylvanica Ramb.! Neuropt. 456, 13.
-P. internata Walker! Catal. 152, 41.— P. trijuncta Walker! Catal.
153, 43. — P. sonans Barnston, Newport, Linn. Trans. XX, 447.
Yellowish-fuscous; the head broader than the prothorax, luteous,
obscure in the middle ; the antennas fuscous,' the second articulation
and sometimes the following ones luteous; prothorax narrower
posteriorly, the angles acute, sides straight, surface rugulose, the
middle line scarcely more distinct ; the feet luteous, knees fuscous ;
abdomen beneath yellowish, setas fuscous, densely pilose; g last
ventral segment large ovate, with a round, polished spot ; ' 9 ante-
penultimate ventral segment slightly rounded, produced; wings
subhyaline, veins clay-yellow; the vein accessory to the subcosta
four-forked, some transverse veins.
Length to tip of wings, ^ 27 ; 9, 35 millim. Alar expanse
c? 50; 9, 60 millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River (Barnston) ; Philadelphia, Pa. (Pic-
tet) ; Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken) ; Georgia (Abbot) ; South
Illinois (Robt. Kennicott) ; Maryland (Uhler).
I have seen a specimen from Mexico (Muehlenpford, in the
Berlin Museum), which was paler, with many transverse veins,
and the antepenultimate segment produced elliptically. Is it a
distinct species ?
18 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
2 P. ruralis!
P. ruralis Hagen !
Testaceous ; head broader than the prothorax, a curved fuscous
line in front ; antenna? fusco-testaceous, the second articulation
and some of the following ones luteous ; the prothorax quadran-
gular, short, equal, rugulose, angles rather obtuse ; feet testaceous,
knees fuscous ; abdomen beneath yellowish, setae yellowish, behind
the base banded with fuscous, hardly pilose ; 9 antepenultimate
ventral segment a little rounded, produced, before the apex a linear
transverse tubercle; wings sub-hyaline, the veins luteous; anterior
wings with the subcostal accessory veinlet five-branched, transverse
veins very numerous. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 31 milliin. Alar expanse 57 millim.
Hob. St. Louis.
3. P. arida!
Perla arida Hagen !
0
Yellowish-fuscous ; head broader than the prothorax, yellowish,
clouded with fuscous anteriorly ; antenna? fuscous, second articula-
tion yellowish ; prothorax narrower posteriorly, angles acute, sides
straight, rugulose, middle line yellowish ; the feet luteous, knees
fuscous ; the abdomen beneath luteous ; setse pilose, yellow, arti-
culations of the tip fuscous at their apex ; g last ventral segment
large, ovate ; 9 antepenultimate ventral segment with a middle
lamina narrow at base and at the apex two-lobed ; wings sub-
hyaline, veins fuscous ; anterior wings with the subcostal accessory
vein three-branched, transverse ones few.
Length to tip of wings 23 J1, 28 9 millim. Alar expanse
43 J, 53 9 millim.
Hub. New York, Philadelphia.
Is this not P. arenosa Pictet, tab. x, fig. 2, from Philadelphia?
O O Submarginal space of the anterior wings not
charged with transverse veins.
a. Subcostal accessory veinlet of the anterior wings with four
incurved branches. Subgenus Isoyenus Newm. Nephelion Pict.
4. P. frontalis !
Isogenus frontalis Newm.! Entom. Mag. V, 178. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ill, 25. —
Nephelion frontalis Pict. Perl. 172, 8 ; tab. viii, fig. 10—11. Walk.!
Catal. 144, 10.— Perla bicaudata Kirby, Fn. Bor. Am. 252.
PERLA. 19
Blackish-fuscous ; head hardly broader than the prothorax, an
occipital spot and a frontal one in the shape of a Y, yellow ; pro-
thorax quadrangular, rugulose, sides straight, a yellow stripe upon
the middle, angles acute ; feet yellowish-fuscous, knees blackish-
brown banded with yellow ; abdomen fuscous, apex beneath yel-
lowish ; the setas pilose, luteous ; 9 antepenultimate ventral seg-
ment slightly, but broadly excised ; wings hyaline, anterior ones
with a medial costal, hardly conspicuous, fuscous cloud ; veins
blackish-brown. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 24 millim. Alar expanse 42 millim.
Hdb. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; Latitude 68° (Richardson) ; Trenton Falls, and Ohio
(Schaum).
I possess a 9 specimen, taken at the same place, Ohio, most
resembling this, but the incisure of the antepenultimate segment
differs a little ; being narrower and longer. Perhaps distinct.
5. P. clio.
Isogenus clio Newrn. Mag. Nat. Hist, new ser. Ill, 86, 7. Walker Catal.
146, 17.
"Fuscous, head laterally around the eyes yellowish ; prothorax
with a median, longitudinal, yellow line; abdomen testaceous." —
Walker.
Halt. Georgia (Abbot).
Unknown to me.
6. P. drymo.
Isogenus drymo Newm. Mag. Nat. Hist, new ser. Ill, 86, 6. Walker
Catal. 146, 18.
" Fuscous, head testaceous, clypeus and a quadrate spot behind
it fuscous ; prothorax fuscous, marked with two large bright testa-
ceous spots ; base of the femora paler." — Walker.
Hub. Georgia (Abbot).
Unknown to me.
7. P. aurantiaca !
P. aurantiaca Hag.!
Orange-luteous ; head with two ocelli : prothorax narrower be-
hind, sides straight, surface rugulose, angles acute; last ventral
segment short, produced in the middle ; wings subhyaline, orange-
yellowish, veins orange ; accessory veinlet three-branched.
20 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 35 millim.
Hob. Mexico. The unique type is vei'y defective.
a a Accessory subcostal veinlet of the anterior wings, two-
branched. Subgenus Perla Pictet. (Apical costal space with
some transverse veins.)
8. P. dorsata.
Sialis dorsata Say, Godman's Western Quart. Rep. 1823, II, 164, 1.
"Black varied with rufous ; head blackish, with about six blacker
spots ; beneath pale yellowish, labrura pale ; palpi black ; pro-
thorax blackish, with impressed blacker lines, anterior and poste-
rior incisures and dorsal vitta rufous, angles rather prominent, a
pale obsolete line from the base of the thorax to the abdomen, be-
neath yellowish, disk of the segments black ; trochanters yellowish;
abdomen black, segments above with yellow posterior margins,
venter pale yellow; nervures of the wings deep black." — Say
(amended, Uhler).
Length to tip of wings 50 millim. (If inches). Alar expanse
80 millim.?
Nab. Ohio River, Pittsburg ; "common in May." — Say.
Unknown to me.
9. P. Coulonii.
Perla Coulonii Pictet, Pe$l. 212, 22 ; PL x, fig. 4. Walk. Catal. 150, 32.
"Black; head broad, the sides and occiput luteous ; beneath
luteous; the prothorax large, fuscous, very rugnlose, the disk
obscurer; abdomen paler fuscous; setre rather short, fuscous;
wings fusco-hyaline, veins fuscous, stout." — Pict.
Length to tip of wings 46 millim. Alar expanse 7t millim.
Hab. United States. Unknown to me. Perhaps P. dorsata?
Is it different from Walker's species, captured at the " Macken-
zie and Slave Rivers ?"
10. P. immarginata.
Sialis immarginata Say, Godman's West. Quart. Rep. II, 164, 2.
" Black varied with yellow, or yellow varied with black ; eyes
deep black-brown ; prothorax transversely quadrangular, posterior
angles a little rounded, disk a little rugose, with impressed irregu-
lar lines, an impressed dorsal line, and each side of it a slightly
PERLA. 21
x
arcuated one ; beneath yellow ; wings obscure, veins fuscous, im-
marginate.
"It varies very much in coloring, being generally entirely yellow
beneath, and sometimes upon the tergum. The thorax has some-
times a yellow dorsal line, and sometimes a black one." — Say.
Length to tip of wings 9 30 millim. ("more than one inch").
Male smaller.
Hob. Ohio River: "common in May" (Say). Unknown to me.
Perhaps a unique male from Washington (Osten Sacken) be-
longs to this species.
11. P.'lurida!
Perla lurida Hag.!
Testaceous, varied with yellowish ; head hardly broader than the
prothorax, yellowish, a broad fuscous stripe upon the middle excised
in front and drawn out into a semilunar form posteriorly ; antennas
testaceous ; prothorax quadrangular, narrower posteriorly, testa-
ceous, rugulose, sides a little incurved, anterior angles acute, pos-
terior ones a little rounded ; feet testaceous, knees fuscous, under-
neath yellowish ; body beneath yellowish, seta3 testaceous-yellow,
base of the venter pale yellow ; antepenultimate ventral segment a
little produced, triangularly emarginate in the middle ; wings tes-
taceo-hyaline, veins fusco-testaceous. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 33 millim. 9 Alar expanse 62 millim.
Hob. New Orleans (Pfeiffer).
12. P. lycorias !
Perla lycorias Newm. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, III, 85. Pict. Perl. 214.
Walk. Catal. 152, 40.
Testaceous-yellow ; head broader than the prothorax, orange-
yellow, a transverse, trilobed, brownish-testaceous band ; anteriorly
and posteriorly clouded with fuscous; antennae brownish-testaceous,
base yellowish, first articulation brownish-black ; prothorax quad-
rangular, hardly narrower posteriorly, sides straight, angles acute ;
its color orange-yellow, with fuscous rugula3, a middle line brown-
ish-black ; feet testaceous, knees and the tibia? externally, fuscous ;
beneath yellowish, seta? fusco-testaceous, pilose; <£ , last ventral
segment larger, rounded, furnished with a transverse, ovate, flat,
polished tubercle ; 9 , antepenultimate segment with an elliptical
middle lobe ; wings subhyaline, veins fusco-testaceous.
%*&>
22 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length to tip of wings 21 — 28 millim. Alar expanse 42 — 52
millim.
Sab. New York (Trenton Falls). Is this the true P. lycorias
Newm. ?
13. P. tristis !
Perla tristis Hag.!
Fusco-piceous ; head broader than the prothorax, fusco-piceous,
two points anteriorly and two upon the middle yellow ; antenna?
piceous, base beneath and second articulation paler ; prothorax
quadrangular, posteriorly narrower, fusco-piceous, rugulose, shining,
sides a little oblique, posterior angles hardly rounded, anterior ones
acute ; the feet luteous, exteriorly fusco-piceous ; abdomen piceous,
base beneath yellow ; seta? fuscous ; £ last ventral segment larger,
triangular, incurved ; £ antepenultimate segment truncated ; wings
smoky brownish, costal margin obscurer, veins fuscous. (Male
small.)
Length to tip of wings IT — 25 millim. Alar expanse 32 — 44
millim.
Hob. Trenton Falls, New York ; "Washington (Osten Sacken).
14. P. capitata.
Perla capitata Pict. Perl. 214, 23 ; tab. xviii, fig. 4, 5. Walker Catal.
150, 31.
Fuscous ; head broader than the prothorax, luteous, the disk
and anterior portion black ; prothorax quadrangular, narrower
behind, rugulose, fuscous ; abdomen luteous, obscurer at the apex ;
seta? luteous, apex fuscous ; feet luteous, exteriorly and tarsi fus-
cous, knees with a black band ; wings fusco-hyaliue, veins black-
brown. J1 (The diagnosis is from the figure and description of
Pictet.)
Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 29 millim.
Hab. United States. Unknown to me.
15. P. annulipes !
PeHa annulipes Hagen !
Brown varied with yellow ; head a little broader than the pro-
thorax, brown, occiput, two median spots and a transverse fascia
in front yellow ; antenna? dusky, two basal articulations pale yel-
low ; prothorax quadrangular, narrower behind, sides oblique,
angles acute ; brown, rugulose upon the surface, shining, anteriorly
PERL A. 23
margined with yellow ; feet yellow, a fuscous ring upon the femora
at base, knees, tibiae externally and tarsi fuscous ; abdomen above
brown, segments margined with yellow ; beneath yellow, middle of
the base obscure ; seta? yellow at base (the remainder is broken
off) ; 9 antepenultimate ventral segment, middle lobe, short, broad,
rounded, infuscated ; wings grayish-subhyaline, costal margin a
little yellowish, veins testaceous. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sackeu, 185*7). Is this P. capitata
Pictet ?
16. P. postica!
Perla postica Walker Catal. 144, 11.
Black ; head equal to the prothorax, black, a spot upon the
occipital middle, which is hastiform and sometimes two anteriorly
orange-yellow ; antenna? black ; .prothorax transverse, quadran-
gular, short, black, rugulose, an orange stripe upon the middle,
sides straight, angles acute ; feet brownish-black ; abdomen black,
beneath in the middle yellowish ; seta? black ; <g last ventral seg-
ment larger, ovate, fuscous ; 9 antepenultimate segment large,
triangularly ovate, fuscous ; wings grayish-subhyaliue, veins fus-
cous.
Length to tip of wings 15 — 20 millim. Alar expanse 28 — 34
millim.
Hob. Louisiana (Schaum); Mackenzie River (Richardson).
I do not know whether this is the same with Walker's species
or not. It is some time since I examined his specimens in the
British Museum.
The words in Mr. Walker's diagnosis, "prothorax produced into
an acute angle, or short horn on each side by the foreaugle," are
erroneous, and they are accordingly omitted here.
17. P. olivacea !
Perla olivacea Walk. Catal. 144, 12.
Fuscous ; head hardly broader than the prothorax, fuscous, ful-
vous in front with a large occipital, trilobed, transverse spot ; an-
tenna? fuscous, fulvous at base ; prothorax transverse, quadrangular,
shorter, fuscous, rugulose, a broad, yellow middle stripe; sides
straight, anterior and posterior margin a little rounded ; the feet
fuscous, beneath and tibia? luteous ; abdomen fuscous; seta? luteous,
24 • NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
pilose ; <£ with last ventral segment luteous, larger, oval ; wings
small, shorter than the abdomen, subhyaline, veins fuscous.
Length of body 9 millim.
Hdb. Arctic America. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River
(Barnston), Is this "Walker's species ?
18. P. media.
Perla media Walker Catal. 145, 13.
Black ; head broader than the prothorax, black, the sides, poste-
rior margin and two spots yellowish-brown ; prothorax quadran-
gular, black, rugulose, with a middle sulcus; narrower posteriorly,
anterior angles acute, posterior ones rounded ; wings subcinereous,
veins black.
Length to tip of wings? 20 inillim. Alar expanse 36 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston). Unknown to rne. Is it not P. immarginata ?
19. P. aethiops.
Perla xthiops Walk. Catal. 154, 45.
Black ; head hardly broader than the prothorax, black ; pro-
thorax quadrangular, narrower behind, black, . subrngulose, sub-
sulcated, sides convex, angles subacute ; wings blackish-fuscous,
veins black. (The diagnose is taken from that of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings ? 24 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Hartweg). Unknown to me. Is it not P. trislis?
20. P. cincta.
Perla cincta Pict. Perl. 229 ; tab. xx, fig. 5. Walk. Catal. 156, 50.
Black varied with yellow ; head broader than the prothorax,
black, in front yellow ; antennas black, the basal article fuscous ;
prothorax transverse, angles rounded, sides straight, surface sub-
rugose, black, margined with yellow, the anterior margin broader,
upon the middle a yellow stripe ; abdomen and seta? fuscous; the
feet luteous, streak of the femora, and the knees black, tibia? at
base and tarsi black ; wings tinged with yellowish, semihyaline,
veins orange-yellow. (From the figure and description of Pictet.)
Length to tip of wings 30 millim. Alar expanse 50 inillini.
Hab. Yera Cruz. Unknown to me.
21. P. nigrocincta !
Perla nigrocincta Pict.! Perl. 236, 34 ; tab. xxii, fig. 5—8. Walker,
Catal. 158, 56.
PERL A. 25
Yellow varied with fuscous ; head as wide as prothorax, yel-
low, disk brownish-black, only two ocelli ; antennae fuscous ; pro-
thorax yellow, rugulose, externally the half each side fuscous,
sulcus upon the middle fuscous ; posteriorly narrower, in front and
sides rounded, anterior angles subacute, posterior ones rounded ;
feet yellow, knees, tibiaa and tarsi externally fuscous ; abdomen
yellow ; setae yellow ; <£ last ventral segment large, ovate ; wings
fusco-subhyaline, costal margin somewhat yellowish, veins testa-
ceous. (Male.)
Length to tip of wings 18 ( — 22) millim. Alar expanse 33
( — 41) millim.
Hob. Mexico (Koppe); Cordova (Saussure).
22. P. dilaticollis!
Perla dilaticollis Burm.! II, 880, 7. Pict.I Perl. 240,36; tab. xsiii, fig.
5—10. Walk. Catal. 158, 58.
Yellow varied with brown ; head wide as the prothorax, yellow,
in front clouded with fulvous : ocelli only two, black ; the antennas
brown, the base luteous ; prothorax narrower behind, anteriorly
rounded, rugulose, brown, a broad, yellowish middle vitta, sides
oblique, anterior angles rounded ; feet yellowish, knees and tibiaa
externally a little infuscated ; abdomen and setaa yellowish ; <£ last
ventral segment large, ovate ; ? antepenultimate ventral segment
truncate ? wings testaceo-subhyaline, veins testaceous, accessory
subcostal vein incurved.
Length to tip of wings 10 — 13 millim. Alar expanse 20 — 2T
millim.
Hal. Mexico ; Columbia ; Brazil ; North America (Museum
Vienna). I have not seen the Mexican specimens.
23. P. litura.
Perla litura Pict. Perl. 242, 37 ; tab. xxiv, fig. 1—3. Walk. Catal.
159, 59.
Yellow varied with brown ; head as wide as the prothorax, brown,
margined with black, only two ocelli, antennas blackish ; prothorax
brown, rugulose, a broad middle yellow stripe ; broad, narrower
behind, in front rounded, anterior angles rounded, sides oblique ;
feet yellowish, knees, tibiae externally and apical ring, and tarsi
fuscous ; abdomen and seise yellow ; wings grayish-subhyaline,
costal margin obscurer, veins fuscous. (Taken from the figure and
description of Pictet.)
26 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Xength to tip of wings 11 inillim. Alar expanse 20 rnillim.
Hal. Mexico. I have not seen it. Is it not P. dilaticollis ?
24. P. similis !
Perla similis Hagen !
Fuscous varied with fulvous ; head as wide as the prothorax, fus-
cous, sides fulvous, antennae blackish-fuscous ; prothorax quadran-
gular, transverse, rugulose, fuscous, a broad fulvous stripe upon
the middle, sides straight, anteriorly and posteriorly somewhat
rounded, angles subacute ; feet fuscous ; abdomen fuscous, apex
above bright fulvous ; yellowish-brown below ; sets blackish-fus-
cous ; 9 antepenultimate ventral segment truncated ; wings smoky-
hyaline, costal margin obscurer, veins deep fuscous. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 14 rnillim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hah. Pennsylvania and Maryland (Uhler).
25. P. xanthenes.
Perla xanthenes Newm. Entom. Mag. V, 178. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser.
Ill, 35, 3. Pict. Perl. 245, 38 ; tab. xxi, fig. 3, 4. Walker, Catal.
159, 60.
Body entirely pale yellow ; head hardly broader than the pro-
thorax, with a fuscous spot, ocelli black ; prothorax quadrangular,
rugulose, posteriorly a little narrower, angles subacute ; apex of
the femora hardly annulated with fuscous ; apex of the abdomen
fuscous; wings pale yellowish, subhyaline; veins pale yellow.
(Taken from the figure and description of Pictet.) (Female.)
Length to tip of wings ? 27 millim. Expanse of wings 41
millim.
Hob. Pennsylvania ; Georgia (Abbot).
26. P. annulicauda.
Perla annulicauda Pict. Perl. 249, 40 ; tab. xxii, fig. 1 — 4. Walk.
Catal. 160, 64.
Lurid ; head as wide as the prothorax, lurid, disk obscurer, ante-
riorly a pale siuuated nebulous stripe, ocelli (two?) posterior ones
banded with black, prothorax short, rugulose, lurid, rugulae paler ;
sides and angles rounded ; the abdomen luteous, the sette luteous
annulated with black ; the feet luteous, femora above, knees, base
and apex of the tibite and apex of the tarsi fuscous ; wings yel-
lowish-gray, semihyaline, apex of the costal margin obscurer, veins
luteous. (Taken from the figure and description of Pictet.)
PERL A. 27
Length to tip of wings 22 raillim. Alar expanse 29 — 38 millim.
Hob. Mexico ; Brazil. Unknown to rne.
27. P. costalis.
Per/a costalis Pict. Perl. 264, 48 ; tab. xxiv, fig. 4. Walk. Catal. 162, 70.
Fuscous ; head broader than the prothorax, fuscous, in front
rufescent ; antennae black ; prothorax quadrangular, black, middle
reddish-rugulose, angles rounded, behind narrower ; abdomen
yellowish-fuscous ; the setae fuscous, at base luteous ; feet yellow-
ish, apex of the femora, tarsi, black, tibiae exteriorly fuscous ;
wings fuscous, veins black, costal one golden-yellow. (Taken from
the figure and description of Pictet.)
Length to tip of wings ? 18 millim. Alar expanse 21 millira.
Hob. Vera Cruz. Unknown to me.
28. P. occipitalis!
Perla occipitalis Pict. Perl. 254, 43 ; tab. xxvi, fig. 1 — 3. Walker,
Catal. 160, 65.
Yellow varied with brown ; head broader than the prothorax,
ocelli black, only two in number, surface between the ocelli black-
ish-brown, remaining surface yellow, in front clouded with fulvous ;
antennas brown, their base luteous, with the basal articulation
blackish-fuscous at base, and at its apex luteous ; prothorax brown,
rugulose, posteriorly narrower, anteriorly somewhat rounded, sides
a little oblique, anterior angles acute ; feet yellow, exteriorly fus-
cous ; abdomen and setaB yellowish ; 9 antepenultimate ventral
segment truncated ; wings testaceo-subhyaline, costal space yel-
lowish, veins testaceous ; accessory vein direct. (Female only seen.)
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hob. Philadelphia ; New York ; Washington (Osten Sacken) ;
Maryland (Uhler).
Yery similar to P. dilaticollis. In the specimen from Maryland
the prothorax has a middle yellow stripe, anteriorly and posteriorly
broadened.
29. P. picta.
Perla picta Pict. Perl. 261, 47 ; tab. xsvii, fig. 3, 8.
Yellowish-fulvous ; the head broader than the prothorax, lute-
ous, a spot upon the middle triangular, and another irregular,
between the ocelli black, ocelli three ; antennae yellowish, apex
28 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
fuscous ; prothorax at sides black, with a luteous medial line or
broader fascia ; quadrangular, sides almost straight, angles some-
what rounded; abdomen and setas luteous; wings hyaline, hardly
obscured, veins fuscous. (Taken from the figure and description
of Pictet.)
Length to tip of wings 16 — 18 millim. Alar expanse 27 — 32
millim.
Hob. North America. Unknown to me and a somewhat doubt-
ful species.
30. P. placida !
Perla placida Hag.!
Yellowish-fulvous ; the head a little broader than the prothorax,
luteous, in front clouded with fulvous, a large discoidal, quad-
rangular black spot, three ocelli ; antennae fuscous, base yellow,
basal article fuscous above ; prothorax rugulose, brown, posteriorly
a little, anteriorly somewhat rounded, sides a little oblique, ante-
rior angles acute ; the feet luteous, knees subfuscous ; the abdo-
men and sette luteous ; <£ last ventral segment larger, ovate ; 9
antepenultimate one truncate ; wings pale testaceo-hyaline, costal
space yellowish, veins testaceous.
Length to tip of wings 10 — 12 millim. Alar expanse IT — 23
millim.
Hob. New York; Washington (Osten Sacken, 1857). Very
similar to P. occipitalis.
31. P. ephyre !
Chloroperla ephyre Newm.! Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. Ill, 87, 5. Pictet.
Perl. 283, 3. Walk.! Catal. 168, 91.
Yellowish fulvous ; head broader than the prothorax, yellowish-
fulvous, ocelli three, joined together by a V-shaped brownish-black
line, antennae fuscous, base hardly yellow, basal articulation ob-
scurer ; prothorax yellowish-fulvous, rugulose, hardly narrower
behind, anteriorly somewhat rounded, sides almost straight, ante-
rior angles acute; feet yellowish, knees exteriorly a little dusky;
abdomen yellowish ; setae yellowish, at apex fuscous ; 9 ante-
penultimate ventral segment truncated ; wings pale testaceo-hya-
liue, veins luteous, costal space slightly yellowish.
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hal). Georgia (Abbot) ; New York ; New Orleans ; Berkeley
Springs, Virginia (Osten Sacken).
PERLA. 29
32. P. clymene.
Chloroperla clymene Newm. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. Ill, 87, 4. Pict.
Perl. 283, 4. Walk. Catal. 107, 87.
" Head yellow, eyes and ocelli black ; wings lightly tinged with
fuscous, nervures all fuscous." — Newman.
Alar expanse 26 millira.
Hal. Georgia (Abbot). Unknown to me. Does it belong here?
Subgenus Chloroperla Pictet. (Costal, apical space with one
transverse vein.)
33. P. Guerinii.
Perla Guerinii Pict. Perl. 279, 55 ; tab. xxx, fig. 6—8. Walk. Catal.
164, 77.
Black ; head as wide as the prothorax, black, a stripe upon the
occiput yellow ; prothorax quadrangular, anteriorly narrower,
rugulose, a stripe upon the middle yellow ; feet brown, femora and
tibia? with a longitudinal line, and tarsi, black ; abdomen black,
the last segment whitish-gray ; setce fuscous, pilose, base whitish;
wings dusky subhyaline, veins dusky. (From the figure and de-
scription of Pictet.)
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Jfab. ]STew Orleans. Unknown to me.
34. P. mactilata.
Perla maculata Pict. Perl. 280, 56; tab. xxx, fig. 9. Walker, Catal.
164, 78.
Black ; head as wide as the prothorax, yellow, disk broadly black ;
prothorax black, with a yellow middle line, posteriorly narrower,
sides rounded ; wings dusky, costal space obscurer, veins black.
(From the figure and description of Pictet.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 20 millim. •
Hob. Philadelphia. Unknown to me.
35. P. decolorata.
Perla decolorata Walker, Catal. 170, 98.
Pale testaceous ; head a little broader than the prothorax, pale
testaceous, with an irregular, discoidal, black spot ; prothorax
quadrangular, subrugose, a large fuscous spot each side, sides
straight, angles subacute ; wings hyaline, veins black, testaceous
at base. (From the description of Mr. Walker.)
30 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hab. Great Bear Lake (Richardson). Unknown to me.
36. P. deci'sa.
Perla decisa Walker, Catal. 170, 99.
Ferrugineous, shining ; head broader than the prothorax, testa-
ceous, antennas fuscous ; prothorax square, rugulose, angles sub-
acute ; wings gray, veins black.
Alar expanse 25 millira.
Hdb. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
37. P. bilineata !
Sialis bilineata Say, Godinan's Western Quarterly Reporter, II, 165, 4. —
Chloroperla transmarina Newm.! Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, III, 87, 3.
Newm.! Ent. Mag. V, 499. Walk. Catal. 161, 89. Pictet. Perl.
283, 2. Perla picta Walk. Catal. 161, 169.
Pale fuscous, varied with yellow ; head broader than the pro-
thorax, with three ocelli ; surface yellow, two, anteriorly conjoined,
semicircular, fuscous lines upon the disk, two straight fuscous lines
before the discal ones ; antennas yellowish, apex fuscous, basal
articulation dusky ; prothorax quadrangular, yellow, rugulose, each
side with a broad fuscous stripe, sides straight, posteriorly hardly
narrower, angles acute ; the feet luteous, knees, and exteriorly
obscurer ; the abdomen and setas luteous, 9 antepenultimate ven-
tral segment rounded at apex ; wings grayish-hyaline, exteriorly
tinged with yellow, veins testaceous. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hab. Canada ; Trenton Falls, New York ; Ohio (Schaum) ;
" Cincinnati, 15th May : not rare" (Say).
38. P. several
Perla sever a Hag.!
Pale yellow ; head hardly broader than the prothorax, pale yel-
low, three black ocelli ; antennae pale yellow, apex obscurer ; pro-
thorax quadrangular, rugulose, pale yellow, a narrow brown stripe
upon the middle, sides straight, angles obtuse, rounded ; feet yel-
lowish, exteriorly obscured, tarsi blackish fuscous ; abdomen ;
wings hyaline, veins fuscous, base and disk partly pallid.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hab. Island of Unga, Russian America.
ISOPTERYX. 31
39. P. citrinella.
Perla citrinella Newp. Proc. Linn. Soc. I, 388, 6. Kewp. Trans. Linn.
Soc. XX, 540, 1. P. citrinella Walk. Catal. 169, 97.
Pale luteous ; the head as wide as the prothorax, ocelli fuscous ;
antenna? fuscous, pale at base ; prothorax not broader behind,
luteous, subrugulose, the anterior margin and middle line blackish,
angles obtuse, sides incurved ; wings hyaline, veins pale. (From
the description of Mr. Walker.)
Length to tip of wings(?) 13 millini. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; Nova Scotia (Redman.)
Unknown to me. The description of Mr. Newport differs a
little : "antennae entirely black." The description of Mr. Walker
was drawn from the typical specimen. Is it an Isopteryxt
40. P. imbecilla.
Sialis imbecilla Say, Godman's West. Quart. Rept. II, 165, 3.
Pale green, immaculate ; head with three fuscous ocelli, antennas
rather obscurer, pilose ; prothorax transversely oval, rugulose ;
wings greenish- white. (Taken from the description of Mr. Say.)
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 millim.
Hal. Ohio River at Cincinnati. Common in the middle of
May (Say). Unknown to me. Is it an Isopteryx ?
ISOPTERYX PICT.
Wings with the transverse veins rare, almost absent ; no basal
space to the posterior wings; palpi setaceous, last articulation
shortest.
1. I. cydippe !
Chloroperla cydippe Newm. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, III. 88, 8. Pict. Perl.
317. Walk. Catal. 168, 88.— Chi. sulphurea Fitch! (Collection of
de Selys Longckarnps.)
Pale yellow, immaculate ; head hardly broader than the pro-
thorax, three black ocelli ; antennae nigro-fuscous, base pallid :
prothorax transversely oval, subrugulose, angles rounded ; feet
pale, tarsi nigro-fuscous; wings greenish-hyaline, veins pale.
Length to tip of wings <^ 7 ? 9 millim. Alar expanse £ 13
9 16 millim.
32 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Hdb. Georgia (Abbot); Trenton Falls, New York; Washington
(Osteii Sacken, Asa Fitch). Is it not P. imbecilla?
CAPNIA PICTET.
Wings veiny, transverse veins very few and very regular ; anal
area of the posterior wings large, plicate ; palpi filiform, last joint
ovate, longer than the preceding one ; two setas.
1. C. pygmaea !
Semblis pygmaea Burm.! II, 874, l.(6) — Capnia pygmaea Pictet! Perl.
324, 2 ; tab. xl, fig. 1—3. Walk. Catal. 175, 2.—Perla nivicola
Fitch ! Winter Insects of E. New York, 5, 3.
Black, shining, with gray hairs ; articulations of the antennae long ;
prothorax rounded, subrugulose, in front with an impressed, curved
line ; feet black, tibiae brown, at the apex pitchy, tarsi fuscous ;
abdomen black ; seise with somewhat near 20 articulations, black,
apex fuscous ; J1 wings rudimentary ; 9 wings pale, veins fuscous ;
penis of the male long ; to the back of the abdomen two tubercles,
placed before the apex of the penis.
Length to tip of wings 4| J", 9 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 9
millim.
Ilab. Pennsylvania (Zimmerman); Newfoundland. "New York,
common in February." — Dr. fitch.
Is not Capnia vernalis Newport, this same species ?
2. C. necydaloides !
Capnia necydaloides Pict.! Perl. 326, 3 ; tab. xl, fig. 4—5. 9 ; Walker,
Catal. 175, 3.
Black, shining; articulations of the antennae long; prothorax
rounded, subrugulose, anteriorly an impressed, curved line ; feet
black, tibice brown, piceous at the apex, tarsi fuscous ; the abdo-
men luteous, the apex black; setae black, with 13 — 18 articulations,
the apex fuscous; <£ wings rudimental ; 9 wings a little longer
than the abdomen, pale, the veins stout, black ; penis shorter than
in the preceding species ; abdomen having one dorsal tubercle
before the apex of the penis.
Length to tip of wings J1 4, 9 6i millim. Alar expanse \\\
millim.
Hub. North America (Pictet) ; Washington, 20th December
(Osten Sacken).
CAPNIA. 33
3. C. minima!
Perla minima Newp.! Proc. Linn. Soc. I, 388, 2. Trans. Linn. Soc. XX,
450, 2. Walk.! Catal. 183, 19.
Black, shining; antennae moniliform; prothorax narrower than
the head, subquadrate, sides straight, angles acute; feet blackish-
fuscous; abdomen black (setae with 13 articulations, Newp.); g
wings rudimental; 9 wings pale, veins black; penis J* very short;
abdomen having no dorsal tubercle before the apex of the penis.
Length to tip of wings J1 2^; 96 millim. Alar expanse, 7
millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay ; April
(Barnston).
I possess only the male ; the remainder of the description is
from Newport and Walker.
4. C. vernalis!
Capnia vernalis Newp. Proc. Linn. Soc. 388, 3. Trans. Linn. Soc. XX,
451, 3. Walk. Catal. 176, 8. Nemoura tennis Walk.! Catal. 182, 13.
Black, shining, sparingly pilose ; antennas moniliform ; protho-
rax narrower than the head, rounded, rugulose; feet, abdomen, and
setas blackish-fuscous; sets with somewhat near 20 articulations ;
wings pallid, veins fuscous; wings with the form and reticulation
of Nemoura (subgenus restricted); penis rather long; no dorsal
tubercle before the apex of the penis.
Length to tip of wings 6 — 7 millim. Alar expanse 10 — 12
millim.
Hdb. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
I possess a male and female from the British Museum ; they are
certainly N. tennis Walker, but I do not know whether the speci-
mens described in the same place and taken in New York, belong
here. Nor have I quoted here Newport's species G. vernalis, with-
out some doubt. But not finding his typical specimens in the
British Museum, I am rather inclined to believe that Mr. Walker
has erroneously united them to N. tenuis. N. tennis Pictet is very
different.
f f No abdominal setae.
* Second articulation of the tarsi equal to the others.
34 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
TAENIOPTERYX PICTET.
Wings a little involuted, veined, transverse veins very scarce,
rather regular; anal area of the posterior wings large, plicated ;
palpi filiform, the last article ovate ; no abdominal setae ; tarsi with
three long, equal articles.
1. T. fasciata!
Semblisfasciata Bunn.! II, 875, 6. Pict.! Perl. 359, 5, tab. xlvi, fig. 4, 5.
Walker, Catal. 179, 5.
Black, with gray pile ; head hardly broader than the thorax, in
front and at the eyes rufous, tubercles flat, polished, anteriorly with
two parallel grooves; antennae fuscous, the basal articulation black;
prothorax broader behind, rugulose, sides oblique, posterior margin
rounded, anterior angles subacute, tubercles a little shining, near
the anterior margin a transverse, biarcuated sulcus, two closely
approximated, linear, parallel discoidal tubercles, at the posterior
margin a transverse sulcus ; feet yellowish-brown, femora exteriorly,
tibise at base and the tarsi blackish-brown ; abdomen black, shin-
ing, 9 appendix broad, yellow, triangular, beneath excavated, the
apex narrow, rounded, incurved; <g appendix yellow, lanceolate;
wings subhyaline, a gray transverse band upon the middle and
another at the apex; veins fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 11 — 13 millim. Alar expanse 23 — 25
millim.
Hab. Philadelphia, Pa. ; Washington, April (Osten Sacken).
2. T. similis !
Txniopteryx similis Hagen!
Black, shining; head broader than the prothorax, shining, hardly
rufous anteriorly, antennae black ; prothorax short, broad, sides
oblique, posterior margin rounded, anterior angles rounded, poste-
rior ones acute, anterior margin subreflexed, very rugulose ; feet
brown, femora exteriorly and the tarsi blackish-brown ; abdomen
black, shining; the last ventral segment truncated; wings subhy-
aline, with three broad gray bands, the extreme one is apical, veins
fuscous. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 14 millim.
Hab. Washington, May (Osten Sackeu).
TAENIOPTERYX. 35
t possess males from "Washington, April (Osten Sacken), with
the femora unarmed, the ventral appendage narrow, oval, concave,
and with the sculpture of the front, anteriorly, a little different.
Is it a new species ?
3. T. frigida!
Taeniopteryx frigida Hagen!
Black, grayish-pilose ; head hardly broader than the prothorax,
in front fuscous, tubercles flat, polished; anteriorly with two parallel
furrows; antenna? black; prothorax hardly broader posteriorly, sides
straight, anterior and posterior margin subrotund, anterior angles
rounded, posterior ones square, with a few flat, polished tubercles,
near the anterior margin a transverse biarcuated sulcus, at the pos-
terior margin a transverse one ; feet yellowish-brown, femora ex-
teriorly, tibiaB at base and the tarsi blackish-brown ; abdomen
black, shining ; wings subhyaline, a gray band upon the middle
and another at the apex, veins fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hab. Maryland (Uhler).
Is this not N. nivalis Fitch, Winter Ins. 6, 4. Walk. Catal.
190, 48? It is certainly a Tceniopteryx, and perhaps T.fasciata
Burrn.?
4. T. maura!
Tseniopteryx maura Pict.! Perl. 361, 6; tab. xlvi, fig. 6.
Black, opaque ; head equal to the prothorax, rugulose, occiput
punctated, antennas blackish-brown ; prothorax broader behind,
sides sinuated, oblique, anterior angles rounded, posterior ones
subacute, the anterior and lateral margins a little recurved, tuber-
cles very few, polished; feet whitish-pilose, femora black, tibiae
luteous ; abdomen black ; wings grayish-hyaline or fuscous, veins
fuscous ; male with shorter wings, the ventral appendage oblong,
concave. The same sex has a robust tooth upon the middle of the
femora beneath.
Length to tip of wings, <^9; 9 15 millim. Alar expanse 9 27
millim.
Hab. Philadelphia, Pa. ; Washington, April (Osten Sacken).
Common.
36 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
5. T. glacialis !
Nemoura (Bracliyptera) glacialis Newp.! Proc. Linn. Soc. I, 389,4. Trans.
Linn. Soc. XX, 451. Walk.! Catal. 192, 53. N. maura Walk.! Catal.
179, 7. (Female.)
Allied to T. maura; differs in having the occiput verrucose, and
the prothorax smoother; the wings in the males rudimentary, the
femora unarmed, the ventral appendage quadrangular, flatter.'
Length to tip of wings 9 — 15 millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
* * The second article of the tarsi small, shorter than
the others.
NEMOURA PICTET.
Wings veiny, flat, transverse veins few, very regular, veins of
the pterostigma forming an X ; anal area of the posterior wings
large, plicate ; no set® ; the second articulation of the tarsi short.
1. N. completa.
Nemoura completa Walk. Catal. 191, 52.
Black, shining; head broader than the prothorax, upon the disk
a luteous spot; prothorax quadrangular, equal, sides straight,
angles subacute, surface subrugulose, a smoother sulcus upon the
middle; feet ferruginous; wings hyaline; anterior ones with a band
upon the middle and another at apex fuscous, veins fuscous. (From
the description of Mr. Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 8? millim. Alar expanse 14 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman). Unknown to me. May it not
belong to Teeniopteryx?
2. N. albidipennis !
Nemoura albidipennis Walk. Catal. 191, 51.
Piceous, shining ; head broader than the prothorax ; antennas
fuscous ; prothorax quadrangular, sides straight, angles subacute,
anterior margin a little recurved, disk with a few tubercles ; feet
pale luteous, apex of the femora and base of the tibiae fuscous ;
abdomen yellowish-fuscous; wings hyaline, veins fuscous, a little
margined with fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 millim.
LEUCTRA. 37
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken) ; Nova Scotia (Redman)
Is not the ferruginous-colored species of Mr. Walker distinct from
this?
3. N. perfecta!
Nemoura perfecta Walk.! Catal. 191, 51.
Black, shining ; head broader than the prothorax, antennae black,
prothorax narrower behind, sides oblique, anterior angles rounded,
the anterior margin a little recurved, disk with a few tubercles ;
feet testaceous, femora exteriorly and the tarsi brownish-black ;
wings clouded with fuscous, broadly margined with fuscous, veins
fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 14 milliui.
Hob. Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken) ; Nova Scotia (Redman).
It may be different from Mr. Walker's species.
I possess an individual of the European N. variegata, labelled
"Philadelphia," but the label is very doubtful.
LEUCTRA STEPHENS.
Wings veiny, involuted when in rest, transverse veins very few,
very regular, veins of the pterostigma simple (i. e., not forming
an X); anal area of the posterior wings small, plicate; caudal setse
absent ; the second articulation of the tarsi short.
1. L. tennis!
Nemoura tennis Pict.! Perl. 375, 10; tab. xlix, fig. 1—3.
Fuscous, opaque, head a little broader than the prothorax; an-
tennas fuscous ; thorax quadrangular, sides straight, angles sub-
acute, disk with three elevated lines, the middle one straight, the
others subincurved; feet fulvous, abdomen fuscous; wings subhy-
aline, a little ciliated, veins fulvous.
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 12 millim.
Hob. Philadelphia ; Washington (Osten Sackeii) ; Sharon
Springs, New York, in August (Osten Sacken).
2. L. ferruginea!
Nemoura ferruginea Walk.! Catal. 183, 18.
Fusco-ferruginous, somewhat shining ; head a little broader
than the prothorax ; antenna? ferruginous ; prothorax a little
38 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
broader in front, quadrangular, sides a little convex, anterior an-
gles somewhat rounded ; disk with three straight elevated lines,
the outer ones shorter ; feet and abdomen ferruginous ; wings
subhyaline, a little ciliated, veins ferruginous.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 14 millim.
ffab. Nova Scotia (Redman).
FAM. Y. EPHEMERINA.
Body elongated, conical; prothorax of moderate size; an-
tennae small, subulate; parts of the mouth rudimentary, con-
nate; caudal setee two or three, long, slender; wings unequal,
posterior smaller, or sometimes absent; transverse veins few
or numerous ; tarsi four- or five-articulated.
EPHEMERA LINN.
Three long and equal caudal setae ; wings four, transverse veins
very numerous; eyes remote, in the males simple.
1. E. decora!
Ephemera decora Walk.! Catal. 537, 7. Male Imago.
g Imago. Rather luteous, apex of the antennas black ; the
head, thorax, and abdomen each side with a fuscous fascia, that of
the abdomen broader, exteriorly serrated ; beneath yellowish, ab-
domen bilineate ; anterior feet very long, luteous, the apex of the
femora, base and apex of the tibia3 and apex of the tarsal articu-
lations fuscous ; posterior feet (partly destroyed) luteous ; set®
luteous, long, the articulations fuscous ; wings yellowish-hyaline,
veins fuscous, partly margined with fuscous, anterior ones with
some discoidal fuscous spots. Female paler, feet shorter, wings
more hyaline.
Length of body 11 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim. Setas 25
millim.
Hob. New Haven; Canada (Barnston); Chicago (Osten Sacken).
Does E. guttulata Pictet. Ephem. 135, 4, tab. iv, fig. 4, belong
here ? I have never seen it, and the locality is unknown. The
figure and description agree, but yet, the wings are more spotted.
2. E. simulans.
Ephemera simulans Walk.! Catal. 536, 5.
Piceous ; feet fulvous, anterior ones obscurer ; setaa pale pice-
EPHEMERA. 39
ous, pubescent, longer than the body ; wings subcinereous, the
anterior ones maculated and subfasciated with fuscous, the apex
and posterior margin not maculated ; veins cloudy. (From Mr.
Walker's description.)
Length of body 12 millim. Alar expanse 31 millim. Setae 14
millim.
Hab. St. Lawrence River.
Is it not a female subimago? I have seen the specimen described
and noted "that it was allied to E. vulgata, but smaller."
3. E. hebes.
Ephemera hebes Walk. Catal. 538, 8. 9 Subimago.
Piceous; antenna black; feet testaceous, anterior ones fuscous;
setae fusco-testaceous ; wings cinereous, veins black. (From Mr.
Walker's description.)
Length of body 9 millim. Alar expanse 22 millim.
Hab. St. Johns, Newfoundland.
The specimen described is in the British Museum.
4. E. natata!
Palingenia natata Walk.! Catal. 551, 13. 9 Subimago.
Fusco-testaceous ; antennas black ; abdomen interruptedly bi-
vittated with fuscous ; setae pilose, fulvous, banded with fuscous,
a little shorter than the body ; feet testaceous, tibiae and tarsi fus-
cous; wings subcinereous, veins black and black-banded, except
at the apex and posterior margin ; the anterior ones with three or
four discoidal fuscous spots.
Length of body 15 millim. Alar expanse 38 millim. Setae 15
millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; Chicago (Osten Sacken).
5. E. pudica!
Ephemera? pudica Hagen! 9 Subimago.
Luteous ; thorax spotted with fuscous ; abdomen with the pos-
terior margin, exteriorly, of the middle dorsal segments black; feet
luteous, the knees and a ring upon the middle of .the femora fus-
cous ; wings grayish-hyaline, longitudinal veins yellow, transverse
ones fuscous, banded with gray; transverse discoidal veins a little
irregular.
40 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length of body 12 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken, 1858).
Are there three setae? The unique specimen is very much muti-
lated ; but it has the fades of an Ephemera.
PALINGENIA BURM.
Three seta3, the middle one short, in the males sometimes, almost
absent ; wings four, transverse veins very numerous ; eyes remote,
simple.
1. P. hecuba!
Palingenia hecuba Hagen! £ Imago.
Luteous, spotted with fuscous ; head blackish-fuscous, apex of
the antennae pale ; prothorax shining fuscous, broad, narrower
anteriorly; abdomen luteous, above blackish-fuscous; setae thick,
whitish-gray, the middle one of equal thickness with the others
(partly destroyed) ; base of the feet luteous (the feet are wanting
in the specimen); wings large, opaque, grayish-rosy, the costal
margin a little obscurer, veins gray.
Length of body 22 millim. Alar expanse 78 millim.
JJab. Yera Cruz (Sallo). Collection of de Selys Longchamps.
The largest species yet known. The wings are opaque, but yet
it is au imago; and it has a mass of eggs in the vulvar aperture.
2. P. alba!
Bxtis alba Say, Long's Narrative, Appendix, II, 305, 3.
Milk-white ; vertex fuscous ; prothorax transverse, quadrangu-
lar, in front truncated, yellowish-white ; anterior feet grayish-fus-
cous, the others white ; wings whitish, anterior margin grayish.
Length of body 11 millim. Alar expanse 22 millim.
Hob. North Red River (Rob't. Kennicott) ; Winnipeg River
(Say).
"This insect appears in immense numbers;" for a more particu-
lar account see Long's Narrative, as quoted above I have seen
only a mutilated specimen.
3. P. puella.
Palingenia puella Pictet, Ephem. 145, 2 ; tab. xi, fig. 4.
Milky-whitish ; ocelli black ; prothorax transverse, short, ante-
PALINGENIA. 4 1
riorly produced in the middle ; apex of the feet brownish, femora
pale ; wings whitish, costa a little obscurer. (From the figure and
description of Pictet.)
Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hob. New Orleans. Not seen by me. Is it P. alba Say?
4. P. bilineata !
Baetis bilineata Say, Long's Exped. II, 303, 1. P. limbata Pictet, Ephem.
146, 3 ; tab. xii.
Imago g . Fulvous, antennas pale, basal articulation obscurer ;
head dusky in front, beneath yellow ; prothorax compressed in the
middle, above triangularly tuberculated, each side with a fuscous
stripe ; abdomen fulvous, spotted with fuscous ; each side with a
medial fuscous stripe composed of oblique strise, margins of the
segments fuscous; anterior feet fuscous, basal articles of the tarsi
yellow, posterior feet yellow, unguiculi fuscous; setas yellowish,
long, apex of the articles annulated with fuscous ; intermediate
seta very short; anal appendages yellow, the apex fuscous; penis
two-parted, fuscous, apex incurved, oval ; wings hyaline, anterior
• ones with the costal margin fulvous, veins black, some transverse
blackish-banded veins; posterior wings with the apex hardly
clouded, transverse discoidal veins banded with blackish-fuscous.
Imago 9. Pale yellow; tarsal unguiouli fuscous; abdomen with
a fuscous apical band in the middle and interrupted ones on both
sides ; wings yellowish-hyaline, costal margin yellowish, longitudi-
nal veins yellowish, transverse ones black.
Subimago 9. Similar to the imago, the abdomen above ob-
scurer, wings opaque.
Length of body, ^ 16; 9 18. Subimago, 9 22 millim. Alar
expanse,^ 34; 9 40. Subimago, 9 48 millim. Length of cau-
dal setae, g 46. Subimago, 9 25 millim.
Hob. St. Peters River, "common" (Say) ; K Red River (Robt.
Kennicott); Maryland (Uhler); Philadelphia; Washington (Osten
Sacken) ; St. Louis. The specimens from Washington are yel-
lower.
5. P. limbata !
Palingenia limbata Serv. Guer. Icon. Regn. Animal. Ins. tab. Ix, fig. 7.
Ephemeia limbata Ramb. Neuropt, 295, 4. Walker, Catal. 548, 3.
Pal. viridescens Walk.! Catal. 550, 11. Fern. Subimago. Bsetis
angulata Walk. ! Catal. 564, 28. Male imago.
42 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
<£ Imago. Fulvous, spotted with fuscous; antennae gray, basal
article brownish-black; head dusky in front, beneath yellow; pro-
thorax narrowed in the middle, above triangularly tuberculated,
each side with a fuscous stripe conOuent upon the disk; abdomen
brownish-black, dorsum each side with an interrupted yellow stripe;
anterior feet entirely fuscous, posterior ones brownish-yellow, un-
guiculi fuscous; seta? long, fuscous, the apex of the articles with a
very small whitish aunulus; intermediate seta very short; anal ap-
pendages fuscous ; penis two-parted, fuscous, apex unguiculated,
recurved; wings subhyaline, anterior ones with the costal margin
fuscous; veins black, some transverse ones bounded with black;
posterior wings margined exteriorly with fuscous, discoidal trans-
verse veins covered with black.
J" Subimago. Like the imago, but with the body opaque, grayer,
the feet obscurer, the wings opaque gray, the anterior ones hardly
colored upon the costal margin, the posterior ones more broadly
margined.
9 Imago. Similar to the male; the whole body paler, more
fulvous, seta3 and feet paler; the intermediate seta very short; the
anterior wings have the costal margin paler.
9 Subimago. Similar to the imago, the body opaque ; brown-
ish-gray, feet and seta? brownish-black, wings opaque gray, the
anterior ones with the costal margin of the same color, the poste-
rior ones with a brownish-black margin.
I possess another female subimago, a younger specimen. The
body, feet, and setae are much diluted and pale-colored, the margin
of the posterior wings is of the same color, pale. It is hardly
different.
Length of body, ^17. ^9 Subimago, 21. 9, 29 millim.
Alar expanse, <g 34. J1 9 Subimago, 42. 9,46milliui. Length
of seta?, J1 42. ^9 Subimago, 18. 9, 20 millim.
Hob. New Orleans (Pfeiffer); Ohio (Schaum) ; St. Louis;
Chicago (Osten Sacken) ; St. Martin's Falls, Albany River,
Hudson's Bay (Barnston) ; Canada (id.)
Male imagines from Chicago seem to differ a little, the colors
are much paler, the apex of the penis is incurved, the basal half
of the antennce is black, the setae yellowish and the apex of the
articulations has a fuscous ring. P. bilineata from Washington
and P. limbata from New Orleans certainly are distinct species ;
the species from Chicago is colored very much like P. limbata, but
PALINGENIA. 43
the penis is incurved. P. lilineata Say, from N. Red River (de-
termined by Mr. Uhler), is colored more like P. limbata from Chi-
cago ; Mr. Walker's species require a new examination.
6. P. occulta.
Palingenia occulta Walk. ! Catal. 551, 12. £ £> > Imago.
Testaceous ; antennas black, the base testaceous ; sides of the
mesothorax fuscous ; abdomen obscurer, interruptedly bivittated
with fuscous ; setae not longer than the body, testaceous, a little
hairy ; tarsi and anterior feet fuscous ; wings subcinereous, veins
black, basal ones testaceous; anterior wings yellowish at base,
with the costal margin brownish. (From the description of Mr.
Walker.)
Length of body 21 — 25 millim. Alar expanse 41 — 50 millim.
Setas 19 millim.
Hob. Arctic America, Lakes Winnipeg and Superior (Richard-
son).
The typical specimens are similar to P. viridescens, but smaller,
and the posterior wings are scarcely margined exteriorly.
7. P. bicolor.
Palingenia bicolor Walk. I Catal. 552, 15. £> Subimago.
Ferruginous ; thorax each side below, with a black spot ; abdo-
men fuscous, beneath paler ; setas long, hairy, testaceous ; feet yel-
low, anterior ones brownish testaceous, base of the tarsi whitish ;
wings cinereous, the margin pilose, the veins black, margined with
fuscous.
Length of body 12 millim. Alar expanse 27. Setas 24 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
8. P. decolorata!
Palingenia decolorata Hagen !
Luteous ; head brownish-black, antennae pale ; prothorax nar-
rower anteriorly; anterior feet blackish, posterior ones luteous ;
mesothorax yellowish-fuscous ; abdomen luteous, sides striped with
obscure fuscous, setae luteous, intermediate very short ; wings yel-
lowish-hyaline, veins luteous, the subcosta fuscous. (Imago.)
Length of body 16 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim. Setse 30?
millim.
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44 NEUROPTERA Oi1 NORTH AMERICA.
Hob. Mexico ; Matamoras, Tamaulipas. Common.
I have seen many specimens, but all of them in alcohol and
mutilated, and the colors were probably a little changed.
I have had a large species from New Grenada in alcohol, but
the specimen is very much damaged.
BAETIS LEACH.
Abdomen furnished with two seta? ; wings four, transverse veins
numerous ; eyes simple ; in the male approximate, large.
1. B. interpunctata !
Baetis interpunctata Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 41, 1. Walker,
Catal. 562, 23.
Yellowish white tinged with green ; head yellowish, vertex with
a lateral black point, front with an arcuated black line ; ocelli with
a black ring around each, apex of the antennas black ; prothorax
with a black line each side : mesothorax tinged with brown ; feet
greenish, the four anterior femora with a black ring upon the mid-
dle and apex, apex of the posterior ones fuscous ; abdomen with
the apex ferruginous, the posterior margin of the dorsal segments
black ; setse pale ; wings hyaline, the anterior margin greenish, the
transverse veins black, an abbreviated, submargiual, medial black
line. Imago and subimago, male and female.
Length of body 8 millim. Alar exanse 18 — 26 millim. Setae
c? 20, 9 14.
Hob. Indiana (Say) ; Washington, Trenton Falls (Osten Sac-
ken) ; Chicago, Alleghany Mountains, Ya. (Osten Sackeu).
2. B. flaveola !
Baetis flaveola Pict. Epliem. 186, 12, tab. xxiii, fig. 4. Walker !
Catal. 559, 12.
Yellow, eyes black ; wings yellowish-hyaline, transverse veins
black ; posterior femora with a black point ; abdominal segments
margined with black ; seta? yellowish. (From the figure and de-
scription of Pictet. (Female imago.)
Length of body 8 millim. Alar expanse 22 millim. Setaa 9
millim.
Hab. Tennessee (Pceppig, Museum of Yienna) ; St. Martin's
Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barnston).
BAETIS. 45
I have seen a specimen (9 Imago) from the Vienna Museum;
it may be the one described by Pictet (although the setse are longer,
14 millim.). As that female pertains, undoubtedly, to B. inter-
punctata, probably, therefore, B. flaveola is nothing but a female
B. interpunctata Say. On account of a slight fold in the anterior
margin of the wings the submarginal line is seen with difficulty.
I have seen a mutilated, smaller, female subimago from Ten-
nessee (with the wings expanding 18 millim.), which may be a dis-
tinct species.
3. B. obesa.
Baetis obesa Say. Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 43, 4. Walk. Catal. 563, 26.
Subimago. Black, livid ; wings brownish-black, with many small,
transverse hyaline spots or abbreviated lines, a large, hyaline,
oblique semifascia about the middle on the anal margin ; posterior
ones, with many transverse, abbreviated, hyaline lines not attaining
to the apical margin ; feet pale yellow, incisures of the tarsi black;
abdominal segments margined with rufous; setse very short, pilose,
annulated with black. (From Say's description.)
Length of body 8 millim.
Hob. Indiana (Say).
4. B. fusca!
Baetis fusca Walker! Catal. 568, 38.
Imago g 9. Piceous, beneath ferruginous; antennae black;
abdomen ferruginous, beneath fulvous ; setae testaceous, subannu-
lated with fuscous, three times the length of the body; feet testa-
ceous, the anterior ones fuscous; wings hyaline, anterior ones with
the costal margin at the apex fuscous. (From Mr. Walker's de-
scription.)
Length of body 8 millim. Alar expanse 20 millim. Setaa 25
millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
I saw the specimen in London, and noted at that time that it
was closely allied to B. flaveola ; the specimen from Nova Scotia
belongs to P. concinnus Walk. Perhaps a. male imago, from
Washington (Osten Sacken), and one from Chicago, belongs here.
46 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
5. B. debilis.
Baetis debilis Walker, Catal. 569, 39.
Ferruginous; abdomen obscurer; setae testaceous, much longer
than the body ; feet pale testaceous ; wings subhyaline, veins tes-
taceous. 9. (From the description of Mr. Walker.)
Length of body 6 millim. Alar expanse IT. Length of setae
8 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman).
6. B. arida.
Baetis arida Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 42, 2. Walk. Catal. 562, 24.
Reddish-brown ; head whitish, varied with ferruginous, vertex
each side, with a small black point ; eyes rufous, with a whitish
vitta; incisures of the abdomen much obscurer; setae and poste-
rior feet greenish-white; wings immaculate. (From the description
of Say.)
Length of body 10 millim.
Hob. Indiana (Say). A female imago, from "Washington, may
belong here ; the specimen is mutilated.
7. B. verticis!
Baetis verticis Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 42, 3. Walk. Catal. 562, 25.
Yellowish-white ; vertex ferruginous ; thorax with two ferru-
ginous vittas, which are confluent anteriorly, but obsolete poste-
riorly; setae a little longer than the body, the incisures black; feet
whitish, anterior femora at the apex ferruginous, apex of the
anterior tibia9 and incisures of the tarsi fuscous ; wings hyaline,
veins exclusive of the marginal ones, black. (From the description
of Say.) g Imago.
Length of body 8 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim. Setae 24
millim.
Hob. Indiana (Say) ; Maryland (TJhler).
Two specimens from Maryland agree with the description, ex-
cept in the color of the veins of the wings; the marginal ones are
black, or rather fuscous. Is the description good ? It should be
observed that the species of Baetis are very difficult to separate,
and perhaps some species heretofore described may be only syno-
nyms of others. A further acquaintance is necessary. A male and
female from Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sacken), and Washington (id.)
BAETIS. 47
are possessed by me, perhaps the true B. verticis: is it not B.fla-
veola Pict.?
8. B. canadensis !
Baetis canadensis Walk. Catal. 569, 40.
Testaceous; vertex and disk of the thorax ferruginous ; abdo-
men with the margins of the segments piceous ; feet pale, femora
fuscous, incisures of the tarsi black ; wings hyaline, costal margin
at the apex fuscous, veins black. (From Mr. Walker's description.)
Length of body 6 millini. Alar expanse 16 millim.
Hob. Canada (Barnston); Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken).
I have seen mutilated male and female imagines from Trenton
Falls ; are they the true B. canadensis Walker? A larger female,
expanding 30 millimetres, is pale yellow, wings hyaline, veins yel-
low ; the head and abdomen are wanting. In London I noted
nothing about Mr. Walker's species, except that it was "allied to
JS.jlaveola;" the variety there described is perhaps a female.
9. B. ignava.
Baetis ignava Hagen. Baetis? subimago, Walk. Catal. 571, 45.
*
Rufous; eyes broad, very prominent ; thorax rufous ; abdomen
pale, reddish-gray; seta? thick; feet rufous; wings gray, opaque,
the anterior ones narrow at base, veins bordered with fuscous.
Alar expanse about 25 millim.
Hab. Newfoundland.
Certainly a female subimago : the species is very doubtful ;
Walker assigns Madrid as the locality. I found the typical speci-
men labelled Newfoundland.
10. B. fuscata.
Baetis fuscata Walk. Catal. 570, 41.
? Imago. Piceous, beneath ferruginous ; antenna? black ;
sides of the thorax spotted with yellow ; feet ferruginous, ante-
rior ones piceous ; wings hyaline, veins pale.
9 Subimago. Obscure testaceous, seta? much paler, longer
than the body; wings gray, opaque. (From Mr. Walker's descrip-
tion.)
Length of body 4 — 5 millim. Alar expanse 12 — 16 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston.) ,
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11. B. invaria.
Baetis invaria Walk. Catal. 568, 37.
J* Imago. Pale ferruginous, beneath fulvous; antennae black,
at base ferruginous ; feet testaceous ; wings hyaline, transverse
veins pale- whitish. (From Mr. Walker's description.)
Length of body 5 — 6 millim. Alar expanse 14 — 18 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston). Perhaps the male of the preceding species?
12. B. annulata.
Baetis annulata Walk. Catal. 567, 34.
£ Imago. Ferruginous, beneath testaceous ; antennae fus-
cous, base ferruginous ; thorax with two testaceous stripes ; ab-
dominal segments with a testaceous, triangular spot each side ;
seta; whitish, the incisures black; feet whitish, banded with black;
wings hyaline, veins black. (From Mr. Walker's description )
Length of body 10 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hab. Trenton Falls, New York.
The mutilated specimens from Trenton Falls, cited under B.
canadensis, may belong here, only they are of smaller size.
13. B. vicaria!
Baetis vicaria Walk. Catal. 565, 30.
Imago. Ferruginous ; antennae black ; sides of the thorax
marked with yellow ; segments of the abdomen banded with fus-
cous ; seta? pale testaceous, subannulated, more than twice the
length of the body; feet testaceous, femora with two black bands,
anterior feet obscurer, wings hyaline, anterior ones with the costal
and discoidal veins brownish-black, costal margin at the apex
dusky, obscurer farther in. Imago and subimago, male and female.
Length of body 12 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim. Setce 20
—30 millim.
Hab. St. Lawrence River ; Chicago ; Washington ; Savannah
(Osten Sacken). Is it distinct from B. canadensis^
14. B. femorata.
Baetis femorata Say, Godman's West. Quart. Rep. II, 162, 1.
J*. Fuscous, abdomen beneath whitish, setse double the length
of the body; femora with a middle and apical reddish-brown band ;
BAETIS. 49
wings snowy hyaline, veins clouded with fuscous, especially the
basal, discoidal and apical ones.
9 Fuscous, thorax yellowish, venter whitish ; feet pale fus-
cous, a reddish-brown band upon the middle and apex ; seta? nearly
the same length as with the male ; wings whitish, veins fuscous,
clouded with fuscous. (From Say's description.)
Length of body 12 millim. Setae 24 millim.
Jfab. Cincinnati, Ohio (Say). Not common. Similar to the
preceding species; it may be the same or B. annulata.
15. B. alternata !
Baetis alternata Say, Long's Expedition II. 304, 2.
Fuscous ; head in front and at sides whitish ; thorax pale fus-
cous, in front yellowish, sides varied with yellow; feet pale ochra-
ceous, an apical fuscous ring upon the femora; abdomen above
fuscous, segments at base whitish, the two last with two whitish
lines; venter whitish, each segment with two oblique lines and two
intermediate points black; setas whitish, regularly pointed with
fuscous; wings hyaline, veins not margined. (From Say's descrip-
tion.)
Length of body 12 millim.
ffab. Northwest Territory (Say).
I would believe that a male imago and subimago and a female
subimago from Maryland, communicated by Mr. Uhler, belong
here, but the femora have a medial and apical band.
The <£ subimago is paler ; wings gray, opaque, veins a little
clouded with fuscous. 9 subimago obscurer, feet uniform fus-
cous ; wings blackish-fuscous, posterior ones yellowish at base,
veins not clouded.
Length of body 12 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim. Seta3 g
27, millim. Male and female, subiraago, setae 15 millim.
I saw subimagines like the female, from Washington (Osten
Sacken).
16. B. luridipennis.
Baetis luridipennis Burm. II, 801, 7. Pict. Ephem. 192. Walker CataL
563, 27.
Fuscous ; abdomen banded ; wings lurid, veined with fuscous
(Burm.) J and subimago fulvous; antenna? fuscous; margins
of the abdominal segments fuscous ; setffi whitish., covered with.
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50 NEUROPT-ERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
short pile, a little longer than the body; feet whitish, femora with
a medial and apical fuscous band ; wings hyaline, veins fulvous ;
anterior ones with the apex of the costal margin fulvescent.
Length of body 8 millim. Alar expanse 24 millim. Setoe 24
millirn.
Hob. North America (Zimmerman) ; St. Martin's Falls (Barn-
ston).
The specimens described by Mr. Walker are a female and sub-
imago, not males as Walker contends, and, perhaps, belong to a
different species; Burmeister's species is perhaps a subimago, and
it may be of the preceding species.
17. B. basalis.
Baetis basalis Walk. Catal. 565, 31.
Pitch-black ; antennae whitish ; abdominal segments margined
with testaceous; seta? whitish, the incisures annulated with black,
twice as long as the abdomen ; anterior wings hyaline, the costal
veins clouded with fuscous, a middle marginal fuscous nebula; pos-
terior wings fuscous, their apex hyaline. (From Walker's descrip-
tion.)
Length of body 12 millim. Alar expanse 28 millim. Seta3 22
millim.
Hob. Lake Winnipeg (Richardson). Is it not B. luridipenms?
18. B. noveboracana.
Ephemera noveboracana Liclitenstein, Catal. Mus. Holtliuisen 1796, III,
193, 52.
Bisetousj wings fuscescent, the hind ones smallest; the abdomen
fuscous, margined with luteous. (From the description of Lichteu-
stein.)
Hob. New York. Is it not B. luridipennis?
19. B. tessellata!
Baetis tessellata Hagen !
Luteous ; mesothorax each side with a fuscous line ; abdomen,
upon the segments, superiorly each side, with two fuscous triangu-
lar spots; seta? — ? feet luteous, tarsi at the apex fuscous; wings
opaque, gray, ciliated, veins lurid, many quadrangular, hyaline
spots, posterior wings very small. Female, subimago.
Length of body 16 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
POTAMANTHUS. 51
Hal. Puget Sound, Washington Territory.
I have examined one specimen, in alcohol.
I saw a species of Baetis from Mexico (in the Berlin Museum),
but the only specimen, a female, was very much mutilated.
POTAMANTHUS PICTET.
Three sette; wings four, transverse veins numerous; eyes, in the
male, double, large, approximate.
1. P. cupidus.
Ephemera ciipida Say, Godinan's West. Quart. Rep. II, 163, 1.
<£ Black ; thorax blackish-gray, a broad dorsal stripe and
each side an impressed line black ; eyes large fuscous ; abdomen
black, the segments having the posterior margin pale, a dorsal line
and each side an oblique obsolete line, whitish ; seta? longer than
the body ; feet pale fuscous, tarsi black, anterior feet black ; wings
obscure, posterior ones pale, at tip obscurer.
9 Like the male, but the eyes are small, remote : the abdo-
men black, ventral incisures pale ; seta? a little longer than the
body.
Length of body, J1 11, 9 8 millim. Length of setas, g 5, 9
10 millim.
Hob. Cincinnati, Ohio; 15th of May. Common (Say).
The form of the eyes demonstrates Mr. Say to have wrongly
determined the sexes; therefore I have changed his female to male
and his male to female. It will be observed that the length of
the seta? given by Mr. Say disagrees with his description.
2. P. concinnus !
Palingenia concinna Walk.! Catal. 553, 17. ( £, Imago.) Palingenia
pallipes Walk.! Catal. 553, 16. (9 Imago and subimago.) Baetis
tessellata Walk.! Catal. 566, 32. ( 9 Subimago.)
J1 Imago. Pitchy black; beneath partly ferruginous; antennae
black ; setos double the length of the body ; intermediate one
much shorter, luteous, incisures black ; feet luteous, tarsi fuscous,
anterior feet entirely piceous ; wings hyaline, veins luteous, the
apical veins much obscurer ; costal margin of the anterior wings
fuscous at the apex.
9 Imago. Obscure ferruginous, beneath paler ; disk of the
52 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
head piceous, antennae black ; sides of the thorax spotted with
fulvous ; setae a little longer than the body ; intermediate one
shorter, luteous, incisnres obscurer; feet luteous, anterior ones fer-
ruginous ; wings hyaline, veins fuscous, costal margin of the an-
terior ones lurid at the apex.
9 Subirnago. Whitish-testaceous, marked with fuscous ; an-
tennae fuscous, testaceous at base ; abdomen fuscous above ; seta?
testaceous, almost double the length of the abdomen ; feet testa-
ceous, femora banded with black, tarsi fuscous; wings subcinereous,
opaque, veins testaceous, clouded with fuscous. (From Mr. Walk-
er's description.)
Length of body 10 millini. Alar expanse 22 — 28 millim. Set®,
g 27, $ 14 millim.
Hub. Xova Scotia (Redman) ; Washington, April (Osten Sack-
en).
Although I have examined the specimens described by Mr.
Walker, the length of the seta? in the description of B. tessellala
strikes me now as doubtful, as they should be shorter than those
of the imagines.
3. P. nebulosus.
Palingenia nebulosa Walk.! Catal. 554, 18.
J1 Imago. Black ; abdomen piceous, beneath fulvous ; seta?
testaceous, banded with fuscous ; more than double the length of
the body, intermediate one shorter ; feet fulvous, anterior ones
much obscurer ; wings hyaline, veins fuscous, the anterior wings
with a broad, longitudinal, fuscous band. (From Mr. Walker's
description.)
Length of body 9 millim. Alar expanse 18 millim. Length of
setae 24 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
CLOE LEACH.
Two setas ; four wings (sometimes the posterior ones are want-
ing), transverse veins few; eyes, in the males, double, large, ap-
proximate.
CLOE. 53
1. C. bioculata.
Cloeon bioculata Walk. Catal. 572, 1. (Complete synonymy.)
Eyes of the male obscure; mesothorax yellow; base and apex of
the abdomen obscure ; wings hyaline. (From Mr. Walker's de-
scription.)
Length of body 8 raillim. Alar expanse 18 niillim. Length of
setae 11 — 15 millim.
Hub. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston), Europe.
Further comparison will be necessary to show whether this be
really the European species.
2. C. undata!
Cloe undata Pict. Epliem. 264, 10; tab. xli, fig. 6. Walk; Catal. 575,10.
Pale luteous ; feet yellowish, apex of the tarsi obscurer ; setoe
whitish, annulated with black ; wings hyaline, anterior ones with
the costal margin fuscous, marked with round, hyaline spots ;
clouded with fuscous upon the disk and posterior margin. J"
Imago.
Length of body T millim. Alar expanse 15 — 19 millim. Setae
10 millim.
Hob, Mexico; Cuba (Pictet); New York (Calverly).
I have seen but a single very much mutilated specimen.
3. C. mollis.
Cloe mollis Asa Fitch in de Selys Longcnamp's collection.
Hah. United States. Unknown to me.
4. C. posticata.
Cloeon posticata Say, Godman's Western Quart. Rep. II, 162, 1.
<£ Imago. Greenish-white; eyes reddish-brown ; thorax black,
opaque ; abdomen greenish-blue-hyaline, three apical segments
fuscous ; setae long, white ; feet white, anterior ones obscure at
base ; wings hyaline. (From Say's description.)
Length 8 millim. Length of seta? 19 millim.
Hah. Shippingsport, 21st May. Common (Say).
54 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
5. C. unicolor !
Cloe unicolor Hagen !
Entirely brassy-brownish; feet pale luteous; seta? white ; wings
hyaline. 9 Imago.
Length of body 4 millirn. Alar expanse 10 millim. Setae 10
millira.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sackeu). I have seen a female spe-
cimen from Porto-Rico, similar to this, with the thorax fulvo-aene-
ous: is it a different species?
6. C. pygmaea!
Cloe pygmaea Hagen !
Body brownish-gray ; feet and seta? white ; wings hyaline. 9
Imago.
Length of body 3 millim. Alar expanse 6 millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
7. C. vicina !
Cloe vicina Hagen !
Whitish-hyaline ; thorax fulvous ; eyes rufous ; abdomen with
the three apical segments fuscous above ; setae whitish ; feet whitish,
anterior ones fulvous at the base ; wings hyaline. Male Imago.
Body yellowish-white ; seta? and feet whitish ; wings hyaline.
Female Imago.
Length of body 4 millim. Alar expanse 10 millim. Length of
setae, ^ 10, 9 6 millim.
Hal. Washington (Osten Sacken).
Schioedte, Berlin Ent. Zeit. J. Ill, p. 143, reports Ephemera
culiciformis Linn., from Greenland; I have not seen the specimens.
CAENIS STEPHENS.
Setae three ; wings two, transverse veins few ; eyes in the male
very simple, remote.
1. C. hilaris.
Ephemera hilaris Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 43. Walk. Catal. 583,
13.
Small, whitish ; eyes black ; thorax pale fulvous, beneath and
sides with abbreviated obscure lines ; apex of the abdomen, each
CAENIS. 55
side, with three fuscous points; setoe long; wings whitish, the cos-
tal margin obscure. (From Say's .description.)
Length of body 3 millim.
Hob. Indiana, 4th September (Say).
2. C. diminuta.
Caenis diminuta Walk.! Catal. 584, 14.
Fulvous; abdomen pale testaceous, setae long, white ; feet white,
anterior ones banded twice or thrice with black ; wings whitish,
veins white, the costal margin blackish. Male. (From Mr. Walk-
er's description.)
Length of body 3 millim. Alar expanse 6 millim. Length of
seise 12 millim.
Hob. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida (Doubleday).
This species is allied to G. lactea of Europe.
3. C. arnica!
Caenis arnica Hagen!
Head and prothorax fulvous, banded with black ; antennas whit-
ish ; mesothorax brassy-fulvous ; feet whitish, anterior ones much
longer, cinereous, the femora obscurer, posterior femora with a
spot above upon the apex, black ; abdomen pallid, varied with
gray upon the back, segments with the apex and sides marked with
black ; setas white ; wings opaque, whitish-gray, the two costal
veins black. (Male Imago.)
A male, taken at the same place, differs in its colors ; the head
is yellow banded with black ; the thorax yellow ; tbe feet white ;
the anterior femora and tibiaa have the apex gray ; the abdomen
is whitish-yellow. <g Imago. It may be a distinct species.
Length 2 millim. Alar expanse 4 millim. Length of seise 6
millim.
Hob. Pennsylvania (Zimmerman, Berlin Museum).
Is it C. hilaris? Say? — he describes the eyes as double: are
they really so ? The genus Caenis has the eyes simple ; neverthe-
less the description best suits Ephemera hilaris Say.
FAM. Y; ODOXATA.
Antennae short, setiform; mouth not furnished with palpi;
wings flat, reticulated; tarsi with three articles; second ven-
56 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
tral segment of the male furnished with accessory genital
organs ; abdomen with anal appendages ; body elongated,
narrow.
ft
Tribe I. AGRIONINA.
Antennae four-jointed ; eyes distant ; wings equal ; abdomen
cylindrical, slender ; accessory genital organs, with the anterior
hook connate, penis and vesicle separated ; genital organs of the
female vaginate.
Sub-Fam. I. CALOPTERYGINA.
Antecubital veins numerous.
CALOPTERYX LEACH.
Wings very broad, densely reticulated, pterostigma absent in the
males, that of the female irregular, areolate ; basal space with no
transverse veins; anal appendages of the male forcipate.
1. C. angustipennis !
Sylphis angustipennis Selys! (*£, ) Synops. Calopt. 9,2. Monog. Calopt.
21,2. Walker, Catal. 590, 2. Sylpliis elegans Hag.! $> . Synops.
Calopt. 9, 1. Monog. Calopt. 20, 1. Walker Catal. 590, 1.
Brassy-green, shining ; labrum and base of the antenna? yellow-
ish ; occiput with two acute tubercles ; feet very long, with short
cilia; abdomen long, slender, sides and vent'er rufescent (9);
wings narrow, long, hyaline, somewhat flavescent (9), veins
brassy-green; thorax rufescent, a dorsal green stripe, and a lateral,
divided, broader -blue one. (Female.) Thirty autecubital cross-
nervules. No pterostigma.
Length of body, <£ 67, 9 57 millim. Alar expanse 84 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot); £ . Collection of Dr. Hagen; locality
unknown. 9.
2. C. apicalis !
Calopteryx apicalis Burm.! Handbuch. II, 827, 8. Selys Synops. Calopt.!
9, 3. Monog. Calopt. 23, 3. Walk. Catal. 591, 3.
Brassy-green, shining ; labium, antenna?, thoracic sutures and
pectus black, or in part flavesceut (9); feet long, black, with long
CALOPTERYX. 57
cilia; wings narrow, hyaline, or with the apex narrowly fuscous.
(Male.) Twenty antecubitals. Pterostigma absent.
Length of body 42 millim. Alar expanse 62 millim.
Hob. Philadelphia ; Massachusetts (Scudder).
3. C. dimidiata !
Calopteryx dimidiata Burm.! Handb. II, 826, 16. Selys ! Synops. Calopt.
10, 4. Monog. Calopt. 25, 4. Walk. Catal. 591, 4.— Calopteryx cog-
nata Ramb.! Neuropt. 222, 6. — C. syriaca Rainb.! Neuropt. 223, 9.
(In part. Male.)
Brassy-green or blue, shining; labiura, antennae, thoracic sutures,
pectus, venter, and feet black; wings narrow, somewhat flavescent,
the apex fuscous ; pterostigma of the female snow-white. Male
30 antecubitals; female 20 antecubitals.
Length of body 40 — 45 millim. Alar expanse 54 — 56 millim.
Pterostigma 1£ millim.
Hob. Kentucky ; Georgia ; Pilatka, St. John's River, Florida
(Osten Sacken).
4. C. maculata !
Agrion maculata Beauv. 85 ; tab. vii, fig. 3. — Calopteryx maculata Burm.!
Handb. II, 829,17. Selys! Synopt. Calopt. 10,5 Selys! Monog.
Calopt. 27, 5. Walk. Catal. 592, 5. — Calopteryx holosericeus Burm.!
Handb. II, 828, 13. Ramb. Neuropt. 226, 14.— Calopteryx papilio-
nacea Ramb.! Neuropt. 222, 6. — Calopt. opaca Say, Jour. Acad.
Philad. VIII, 32, 2.
Brassy-green or blue, shining; labium, antennas, thoracic sutures,
pectus, venter and feet black; abdomen with a dorsal yellow stripe
upon the 8th to the 10th segment (?); wings very broad, densely
reticulated, black, sometimes with hyaline spots ( J"), or clouded
with fuscous and fuscous at the apex, with a snow-white pterostig-
ma (female) 19 — 28 antecubitals.
Length 38 — 48 millim. Alar expanse 63 — 65 millim. Ptero-
stigma 2 — 2£ millim.
Hob, Chicago (Osten Sacken) ; Maryland (Uhler) ; Washing-
ton; Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken); Philadelphia; Massachusetts;
Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sacken); Carolina; Ohio; Pilatka, Flo-
rida (Osten Sacken).
A species common all over the Union.
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5. C. virginica!
Calopteryx virginica Drury ed. Westw. 1, 118; tab. xlviii, fig. 2. Selys!
Synops. Calopt. 11, 6. Selys! Monog. Calopt. 29, 6. Walker Catal.
592, 6. — LibeUula virgo Drury 1, 114; tab. xlviii, fig. 2. — Calopteryx
materna Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 32, 1. 9 • — Calopt. aequabilis
Say, 1. c. VIII, 33, 2.— Calopt. dimidiata Ramb. Neuropt. 223, 5.
Brassy-green, shining; labium, antennae, thoracic sutures, pectus,
venter, and feet black; abdomen with the dorsal stripe, and venter
with the segments 8 — 10 yellow; (9) wings much narrower than
in the foregoing species, hyaline, the base somewhat flavescent, the
apex blackish-fuscous ; pterostignia 9 snow-white. 26 — 31 ante-
cubitals. (From the description of De Selys.)
Length of body 50 — 52 rnillim. Alar expanse 10 — 72. Ptero-
stigma 2 rnillim.
Hob. Virginia ; Georgia ; Massachusetts ; Hudson's Bay.
6. C. splendens!
Calopteryx splendens Selys ! Monog. Calopt. 36. 9. (With the complete
synonymy.)
Blue (J1), or green (9) brassy; base of the antenna yellow;
thorax with the second lateral suture yellow; feet black ; abdomen
with a dorsal yellow stripe upon the segments 8 — 10 9 ; wings
broad, hyaline, a broad blue-black band J\ or hyaline, with a
snow-white pterostignia 9 .
Length of body 45 — 49 millim. Alar expanse 62 — 72 millim.
Pterostignia 1 — 2 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
I have seen a male from the collection of Abbot, in the Zurich
Museum. Is it really from America?
A species common everywhere in Europe and Northern Asia.
Calopteryx virgo Fab. Fauna Greenland. 196, 152, is perhaps
erroneously stated. Fabricius says that he only saw it once ; but
according to Schioedte, Berlin. Eiit. Zeit. Ill, 142, it has not
hitherto been discovered there.
HETAERINA HAGEN.
Wings rather narrow, densely reticulated ; pterostigma absent
or very small, quadrangular; basal space reticulated; base of the
wings, in the male, sanguineous.
* Pterostigma absent.
HETAER1NA. 59
1. H. septentrionalis !
Hetaerina septentrionalis Selys! Synops. Calopt. 36,43. Selys, Monog.
Calopt. 119, 43.
Blackish-fuscous ; head and thorax brassy, sides partly yellow ;
feet black ; superior appendages of the tail semicircular, the apex,
exteriorly dentated ; the inferior ones long, cylindrical, at the apex
thickened; wings hyaline, sanguineous at base, posterior ones with
an apical, sanguineous spot. Male. (From the description of De
Selys.)
Hob. Georgia (British Museum).
2. H. californica!
Hetaerina californica Hagen! Addit. Synops. Calopt. 6, 49, bis.
Brownish-black; head and thorax coppery ; a humeral line and
two lateral stripes, yellow ; feet black, femora within and tibia3
without, yellow; abdomen brownish-black; superior caudal, ap-
pendages a little incurved, a quadrangular tubercle upon the inter-
nal middle, and another smaller one at the apex ; the inferior
appendages much shorter, thickened at the base ; wings hyaline,
almost the basal half sanguineous, apex of the posterior ones
dusky.
Length 44 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim.
Hab. Northern California.
3. H. cruentata!
Calopteryx cruentata Ramb.! Neuropt. 228, 19 £ • Selys! Synops. Calopt.
39, 48. Selys ! Monog. 127, 48 ; tab. xii, fig. 1. Walk. Catal. 625,
21.
Brownish-black; head coppery, epistoma blue (J*), or rufous
( 9 ) ; dorsuui of the thorax orange, with a medial broad black
stripe ; the sides orange, with a stripe and cuneiform black spot ;
feet black, tibia?, exteriorly, yellow; female with the femora inte-
riorly yellow; abdomen brownish-black; superior appendages
forcipated, base interiorly, abruptly dilated, inferior appendages
short, flat, truncated ; wings sanguineous at base, the apex mar-
gined with fuscous ( J"), or somewhat yellowish (female). 20 — 29
antecubital cross-nervules.
Length 42 — 50 millim. Alar expanse 56 — 68 millim.
Hab. Mexico; Venezuela; Martinique; Surinam; Brazil.
60 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
4. H. vulnerata !
Hetaerina vulnerata Hagen! Synops. Calopt. 40, 49. Selys! Monog. Calopt.
130, 49 ; tab. xii, fig. 2. Walker Catal. 626, 22.
Brownish-black ; head brassy, epistoma black ; thorax black,
brassy, with a yellow humeral line, sides yellow, a broad stripe and
a cuneiform mark, brassy black (J1); or orange; dorsum with a
middle brassy-green stripe, sides with a narrow stripe and mark,
brassy-green ; feet black, femora inside and tibia? outside yellow ;
abdomen brownish-black, superior appendages black, yellow at
base, forcipated, at the internal base dilated ; inferior ones short,
cylindrical, broader at base ; wings hyaline, sanguineous at base
(J*), or anteriorly and at apex yellowish (female). 11 — 23 ante-
cubital cross-nervules.
Length 42—50 millim. Alar expanse 60—66 millim.
Hob. Mexico ; Columbia ; Brazil.
* * Pterostigma very small, quadrangular.
5. H. americana!
Agrion americana Fab.! Ent. Syst. Suppl. 287, 3— 4.— Calopteryx ameri-
cana Burm.! Handb. II, 826, 4. Ramb. Neuropt. 227, 18.— Hetaerina
americana Selys! Synopt. Calopt. 41, 50. Selys! Monog. Calopt. 131,
50; tab. xii, fig. 3. Walk. Catal. 627, 23.— Lestes basalis Say, Journ.
Acad. Philad. VIII, 35, 2.
Fuscous, coppery (^ ), or green-brassy (?); thorax coppery,
the sides with three yellow stripes (J1) or green-brassy, the sides
with four yellow stripes, feet black, the femora inside and the tibiae
outside yellow; abdomen brassy-fuscous, the female has a dorsal
interrupted yellow line; superior appendages yellow, with a black
apex, forcipated, interiorly with a double tubercle upon the middle;
inferior appendages short, truncated, cylindrical ; wings hyaline,
sanguineous at base (J1), or somewhat yellowish (?); the ptero-
stigrna is yellow. 20 — 24 antecubital cross-nervules.
Length 43 — 46 millim. Alar expanse 54 — 62 millim.
Hob. Maryland; Massachusetts; Washington; Missouri ; Indi-
ana ; Mexico ; Brazil.
6. H. basalis !
Hetaerina basalis Hagen! Selys, addit. Synops. Calopt. 6, 50, bis.
Yery much like H. americana, and perhaps a variety of it ; it
HETAERINA. 61
differs, in the male, by having the basal sanguineous spot larger
and exteriorly convex ; the superior appendages have the middle
tubercle triangular; the female has the yellow abdominal line hardly
interrupted, the base of the wings yellowish-fuscous.
Length 43 — 46 milliin. Alar expanse 54 — 62 millim.
Hal. Pecos River, Western Texas; Mexico; Cordova; Atli-
huazan; Portrero (Saussure).
7. H. tricolor!
Calopteryx tricolor Burm. ! Hamlb. II, 827, 7. Selys ! Synops. Calopt. —
Hetaerina tricolor, 42, 52. Selys ! Monog. Calopt. 136, 52 ; tab. xii,
fig. 5. Walk.! Catal. 629, 25.
Brownish-black ; thorax with a humeral yellow stripe ; sides
yellow, with three brownish-black stripes ; feet black, tibia? exte-
riorly fuscous ; abdomen brownish-black ; appendages black, the
superior ones forcipated, interiorly bi-excised; inferior ones short,
cylindrical, the apex truncated ; wings hyaline, anterior ones san-
guineous at base, posterior ones fuscous at base, all the wings with
a fuscous apical margin; pterostigma black (J*), or they are hya-
line with the base somewhat yellowish, the pterostigma whitish-
yellow (female). 20 — 24 antecubital cross-nervules.
Length 42 — 50 millim. Alar expanse 60 — 64 millim.
Hcib. Philadelphia ; Georgia.
The variety H. limbala Selys, from Georgia, is a little smaller,
the apex of the wings is more iufuscated.
8. H. titia !
Libellula titia Drury, II, 83; tab. xlv, fig. 3. — Calopteryx titia Burm.!
Handb. II, 826, 3. — Hetaerina titia Selys ! Synops. Calopt. 43, 53.
Selys ! Monog. Calopt. 138, 53. Walk. Catal. 630, 26.
Black; head, thorax, feet and abdomen black; superior append-
ages forcipated, interiorly with a basal tooth and middle dilatation;
inferior ones short, cylindrical, obtuse ; wings opaque fuscous, upon
the middle obliquely hyaline ; superior ones sanguineous at base ;
pterostigma yellow (J1 ), or they are opaque, fuscesceut, with the
apex of the superiors hyaline, the pterostigma white ( 9 ). 19 — 22
antecubital cross-nervules. (From De Selys' description.)
Length 41 — 46 millim. Alar expanse 52 — 60 millim.
Hab. Mexico ; Honduras.
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9. H, macropus!
Hetaerina macropus Selys ! Synops. Galops. 44, 54. Monog. Calopt. 141,
54. Walker, Catal. 631, 27.
Brownish-black ; thorax coppery, a humeral yellow stripe, sides
black, with three yellow stripes (J*); or yellow, dorsum each side
with a green-brassy stripe, sides yellow, with two imperfect brassy-
green stripes (9); feet long, black; wings hyaline, with a basal
fuscous stripe, anterior ones sanguineous at base, posterior ones
rosy, with the pterostigrna yellow (<^), or they are somewhat yel-
lowish, with the pterostigrna white (9). 22 — 24 antecubital cross-
nervules.
Length 36 — 44 milliui. Alar expanse 52 — 54 millim.
Hob. Tanipico, Mexico (Saussure); Honduras.
10. H. sempronia !
Hetaerina sempronia Hagen ! Synops. Calopt. 45, 56. Selys! Monog.
Calopt. 147, 56, tab. xii, fig. 7. Walker, Catal. 632, 29.
Black ; head black, labrum and epistoma blue ; thorax coppery,
a humeral and three lateral lines, yellow ; feet black ; abdomen
black ; superior appendages black, forcipated, interiorly a medial
dilatation, inferior ones short, with the apex obtuse; wings hyaline,
sanguineous at base, posterior ones with an apical fuscous spot ;
pterostigma black. 27 — 28 antecubital cross-nervules (J*).
Length 46 millim. Alar expanse 58 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Deppe).
Sub-Fam. II. AGRIONINA.
Two antecubital transverse veins ; wings petiolated.
Legion I. PSEUDOSTIGMATA.
Pterostigma irregular, areolate.
MEGALOFREPUS RAMBUK.
Wings broad, rounded, posterior margin densely reticulated,
with many incurved branches ; areoles pentagonal, the first sector
of the triangle forked at apex ; quadrangular space oblong.
PSEUDOSTIGMA. 63
1. M. caerulatus !
Libcllula caerulata Drury, III, 75, tab. 1, fig. 1. Megaloprepus caerulatus
Ramb. ! Neuropt. 290, 1. Libellula coerulea Donovan, Nat. Reposit.
iv, 110.
Black, beneath pale ; thorax with a humeral line, and two in-
feriorly lateral stripes, pale yellow ; feet black, femora inside and
tibiee outside pale yellow ; wings broad, hyaline, before the apex
a broad blue-black, transverse band, exteriorly, broadly margined
with milk-white and emarginated ; pterostigma large, oblong, black.
Length 90 — 115 millim. Alar expanse 115 — 180 millhn.
Hob, Mexico (Saussure) ; Yera Cruz (Salle) ; Guatimala;
Choco, ISTew Grenada (Schott) ; Honduras ; Bogota, Columbia.
As yet, this is the most gigantic of the Odonata.
The variety M. brevistigrna De Selys, from Bogota, differs in
being of a smaller size, the pterostigma small and the band of the
wings narrower.
PSEUDOSTIGMA DE SELYS.
Wings narrow, the reticulation of the posterior margin of the
wings simple, the areoles tetragonal, regular ; postcostal space
with two series of areoles ; pterostigma irregular ; abdomen ex-
tremely long.
1. P. accedens !
Pseudostigma accedens Selys !
Black, brassy, beneath yellow ; head black, each side in front
slightly tinged with yellow ; prothorax straight posteriorly, tho-
rax, with the dorsum black, a yellow humeral stripe, broadly
divided, sides yellow, with a broad black stripe above; pectus with
a fuscous stripe ; feet black, femora at base and beneath, and tibiae
extremely yellowish ; abdomen black, with a steel blue reflection,
the last segment having the apical half yellow; appendages black,
the superior ones broad, incurved, interiorly excavated, the apex
obliquely truncated ; the inferior ones very small, acute ; margin
of the valves (9) entire; wings hyaline, apex of the posterior
ones entire, pterostigma black, quadrangular, of the posterior
wings triangular (<^), apex of the wings with a narrow yellow spot
anteriorly, pterostigma absent ( 9 ).
64 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length 117 — 124 millira. Alar expanse 126 — 132 millira.
Hob. Mexico (Saussure); Yera Cruz (Salle); Columbia.
2. P. aberrans !
Pseudostigma aberrans Selys !
Black, beneath yellow ; labrum with a yellow middle spot, front
anteriorly yellow, banded with black, and transverse ; prothorax
broadly emarginate posteriorly ; thorax black, a humeral yellow,
hardly cleft, line ; sides with a black stripe ; pectus with a black
stripe in the middle ; feet black, tibiae exteriorly yellow ; abdomen
black, beneath yellow ; margin of the valves (9 ) dentated ; wings
hyaline, with a large, oval, apical spot; pterostigma absent (?).
Length 112 rnillim. Alar expanse 131 millioi.
Hub. Yera Cruz, Mexico (Salle).
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MECISTOGASTER RAMBPH.
Wings narrow ; reticulation of the posterior margin simple ;
postcostal space having a single series of areoles ; pterostigma
irregular; abdomen extremely long.
1. M. modestus !
Mecistogastur modestus Selys !
Black, beneath yellowish; labrum yellow, banded with black;
front yellow anteriorly ; prothorax rounded posteriorly ; thorax
black, a humeral broad, yellow, obliquely divided stripe ; sides
with a black, oblique, entire stripe ; feet black, femora exteriorly
and base of the tibiae yellowish ; wings hyaline, pterostigma ob-
long, black, in younger individuals it is whitish (J*).
Length 84 rnillim. Alar expanse 84 — 91 rnilliin.
Hob. Mexico (Saussure).
2. M. ornatus !
Mecistogaster ornatus Rainbnr ! Neuropt. 288, 12.
Brassy-fuscous, beneath yellowish ; head orange in front, base
of the antennae orange ; prothorax rounded posteriorly ; thorax
brassy fuscous, a humeral divided stripe, a lateral stripe and a
short mark near the wings, interrupted, yellow ; pectus with a
middle black stripe ; feet fuscous, tibiae exteriorly yellowish ; ab-
dominal appendages forcipated, yellow, at the apex black ; wings
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orange at the apex, margined interiorly with fuscous, the posterior
ones whitish beneath the apex.
Length 87 — 102 millira. Alar expanse 97 — 116 millim.
Hab. Yera Cruz, Mexico (Salle) ; Caracas, Venezuela ; Suri-
nam ; Lima.
I possess a variety from Venezuela which has the apex of the
wings green, beneath black
3. M. lucretia!
Libellula lucretia Drury, II, tab. xlviii, fig. 1. Sulze, Gesckicnte der
Insect, tab. xxiv, fig. 4. — Agrion lucretia Burm.! II, 818, 1. — Agrion
amalia Burm. ! Handb. II, 818, 3. — Agrion tullia Burm. ! II, 818,
2. — Mecistogaster lucretia Ramb. Neuropt. 286, 7. — Mecist. linearis
Ramb.! Neuropt. 282, 1 (£). — Mecist, virgatus Ramb.! Neuropt.
284, 4 ( £ young). — Mecist. jiliformis Ramb. ! Neuropt. 285, 6 ( $ ).
— Mecist. leucostigma Ramb. ! Neuropt. 286, 8(9).
Brassy-black, beneath yellowish ; head brassy-black above, a
rufous stripe, each side at the ocelli ; prothorax with two large
rufous spots upon the posterior lobe ; thorax, each side, with two
approximated yellow lines ; sides yellow, with a broad fuscous
stripe ; pectus yellow, a fuscous stripe upon the middle ; feet
brownish black, tibia? exteriorly greenish-yellow; abdomen ex-
tremely long brassy-black, the three last segments yellow at sides,
the apex of the last one yellow, excised ; superior appendages
livid, bent into a right angle, the apex subbifid, and interiorly a
basal tooth ; wings hyaline, posterior ones of the male having the
apex dilated in front, rounded ; pterostigma black, triangular : —
in the younger ones pallid; females, pterostigma black, oblong,
the apex of the wings subfuscous ; the younger ones are yellow,
with the apex of the wings milky-white.
Length 110 — 112 millim. Alar expanse 120 — 144 millim.
Hab. St. Domingo ; Bahia, Para, Rio, San Paul, Brazil.
Legion II. AGRIONINA.
Tw-e antecubital transverse nervules.
LESTES LEACH.
The fourth apical sector broken ; the postcostal space simple ;
the quadrangular space trapezoidal, with the exterior inferior angle
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acute ; the pterostigma large, oblong : appendages in the males
forcipated.
1. L. grandis !
Lestes grandis Ramb.! Neuropt. 244, 1.
Brassy-green, mouth reddish-yellow; dorsum of the thorax
orange, each side with a brassy-green stripe; sides yellow, superi-
orly with a broad brassy-green stripe, inferiorly with a fuscous one;
feet yellowish, femora exteriorly, tibiae interiorly and tarsi black ;
abdomen long, slender, brassy-green, a basal yellow lunule upon
each side of the segments ; superior appendages of the male long,
semicircular, the apex a little thicker, incurved, an interior stout
basal tooth, one obtuse one upon the middle, and an ante-apical
oblique tubercle upon them; inferior appendages short, obtuse, the
apex ciliated : valvules of the female yellow, exteriorly broadly
black, the apex deutated ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma large,
broader in the middle, fuscous; sixteen postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 59 — 50 niillim. Alar expanse 72 — 66 tnillim. Ptero-
stigma 3 millim.
Hob. Mexico (De Selys ;) Columbia, Venezuela (Appun).
2. L. rectangularis !
Lestes rectangularis Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 34, 1.
Brassy-fuscous, mouth yellow ; dorsum of the thorax brassy-
brown, a line upon the middle and each side with a broad stripe,
narrowed in front, yellow ; sides pale yellow, superiorly a brassy-
brown stripe and posteriorly with two linear black spots ; feet
yellow, femora exteriorly, tibia? and tarsi interiorly black; abdo-
men long, very slender, yellow, the dorsum fuscous, the apex of
the segments black, and with an interrupted, yellow, basal lunule ;
the apical segments entirely blackish-fuscous ; appendages black,
the superior ones short, forcipated, the base interiorly dilated,
armed with two teeth, the apical one larger, the apex narrow, in-
curved ; inferior appendages long, rather slender, approximated,
the apex acute, beneath curved ; valvules of the female, with the
margin entire; wings hyaline, the costa yellow; pterostigma short,
the sides a little oblique, black; ten postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 53 — 41 millim. Alar expanse 49 — 41 millim. Ptero-
stigma 1£ millim.
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Hub. Chicago (Osten Sacken); Indiana; Mass. (Say); Mary-
land; Pennsylvania; New Jersey (TJhler); New York (Calverly);
Savannah, Georgia; Minnesota (Kennicott).
I have seen tw5 females, very much like this (L. habilis mihi
from Pennsylvania and Georgia) ; they have the tarsi yellow, and
the margin of the valvules dentated. Is it a distinct species?-
3. L. alacer!
Lestes alacer Hagen !
Black; mouth yellowish; dorsum of the thorax black, each side,
exteriorly, with a yellowish-green stripe, sides livid, with a broad,
fuscous, middle fascia; feet yellow, beneath and tarsi black; femora
and tibiae with an external black line; abdomen slender, black, sides
yellow ; appendages black, the superior ones forcipated, the base
interiorly with a tooth, and upon the middle a rounded lamina ;
the inferior appendages a little shorter, straight, flat, distant, with
the apex truncated ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma black, narrow,
margined with yellow in front; nine postcubital cross-nervules.
(Male.)
Length 39 millim. Alar expanse 42 millim. Pterostigraa 1-^
millim.
Hab. Western Texas, Pecos River (Capt. Pope).
4. L. stulta!
Lestes stulta Hagen !
Black, mouth yellow ; dorsum of the thorax black, a line upon
the middle, and each side exteriorly a narrow stripe, yellow; sides
yellow, with a superior, broad black stripe, which is triangularly
dilated at the wings ; feet yellow, femora exteriorly, tibias interiorly,
and tarsi black; wings hyaline, costa somewhat yellow; pterostig-
ma long, fuscous, margined on both sides with yellow ; eleven
postcubital cross-nervules. (The abdomen is wanting.)
Length — ? millim. Alar expanse 52 millim. Pterostigma 1?
millim.
Hob. California.
5. L. congener!
Lestes congener Hagen !
Black, mouth yellow ; dorsum of the thorax black-brassy, a line
upon the middle and a narrow stripe each side yellow; sides yel-
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low, with a superior, broad black-brassy stripe, which is dilated at
the wings ; beneath yellow, margined with black ; feet yellow,
femora exteriorly and tibiae interiorly black ; abdomen slender,
black-brassy, with a yellow lunule upon the base of the segments;
superior appendages black, yellow at the base, forcipated, with a
basal tooth interiorly, and a middle lamina, with the margin ser-
rated; inferior appendages short, approximated, the apex obtuse,
recurved ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma oblong, black ; ten post-
cubital cross-uervules. (Male.)
Length 37 millim. Alar expanse 43 millim. Pterostigma 1^
millim.
Hob. Xew York; Texas (Friedrich).
6. L. simplex!
Lestes simplex Hagen !
Black, mouth pale; thorax black, dorsum each side with a broad
yellow stripe, which is cleft at the wings; sides and beneath black,
pruinose; feet yellow, femora exteriorly, tibiae interiorly, and tarsi
black ; abdomen slender, black, pruinose at the apex, a basal yel-
low lunule to the segments; appendages black, superior ones forci-
pated, with an internal basal tooth, the middle of the inner margin
somewhat dilated, serrulated ; inferior appendages short, approxi-
mated, the apex obtuse, curved underneath; wings hyaline; ptero-
stigma oblong, black ; twelve or thirteen postcubital cross-uervules.
(Male.)
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 43 millim. Pterostigma 1^
millim.
Hub. Mexico (Deppe).
Similar to L. congener, but the thorax is narrower and the
appendages are different.
7. L. forficula!
Lestes forjicula Ramb.! Neuropt. 247, 5.
Black, mouth pallid; dorsum of the thorax pale blue, each side
with a narrow, brassy-green stripe, margined with black ; a middle
blue line, also margined with black; sides and beneath black, pru-
inose; feet yellow, femora bilineated above with black, tibiae black
interiorly, the anterior ones exteriorly lineated with black, tarsi
black ; abdomen brassy black, with the apex pruinose, the middle
segments at base and a lunule at apex, pallid ; appendages black,
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the superior ones forcipated, with a basal internal tooth arid an
obliquely truncated lamina upon the middle, with the apex serrated;
the inferior ones long, narrow, straight, the apex rounded, some-
what broader; wings hyaline, the pterostigma short, oblong, black ;
eleven postcubital cross-nervules. (Male.)
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 39 niillim. Pterostigma Ig-
millim.
Hob. Mexico; Cuba (Gundlach) ; Brazil.
8. L. vidua!
Lestes vidua Hagen !
Brassy-black, mouth yellow ; dorsum of the thorax black-brassy,
£, middle line and a narrow stripe each side, somewhat interrupted
at the wings, and subexcised, of a yellow color; sides yellow, with
a broad black stripe superiorly, which is broader at the wings, and
two spots inferiorly, also black; beneath yellow, each side with a
marginal black spot; feet yellow, femora and tibia? exteriorly line-
ated with black, tarsi black ; dorsum of the abdomen brassy-black,
a basal yellow lunule upon the segments; sides yellow, venter black
(appendages destroyed); wings hyaline, pterostigma large, oblong,
fuscous, margined with yellow at the sides ; ten postcubital cross-
nervules.
Length 40? millim. Alar expanse 45 millim. Pterostigma 1 J
millim.
Hob. New Orleans (Pfeiffer) ; Vienna Museum.
It is similar to L. congener Hag.
9 L. tenuata.
Lestes tenuata Ramb. Neuropt. 245, 2. Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 463.
Obscure bluish-green ; thorax obscure whitish, with four green-
ish-blue stripes, two of them dorsal ; feet pale, femora trilineated
with black, tibia? beneath and tarsi black; dorsum of the abdomen
bluish-green, the sides pale, a yellow basal lunule upon the seg-
ments ; superior appendages forcipated, inside at the base with a
rounded tooth, behind the middle they are denticulated, and exte-
riorly dentated, the apex somewhat rounded ; the inferior ones
short, obtuse, the apex rounded, pilose; wings hyaline, pterostigma
black. (From the description of Rambur.)
Length 45 millim. Alar expanse 50 millim.
Hub. The island of Martinique. -
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10. L. eurina.
Lestes eurinus Say! Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 36, 3.
Blue, varied with green and violet ; mouth yellow ; dorsnm of
the thorax each side with a yellow stripe, which is cleft and dilated
at the wings, the sides yellow ; abdomen blue, the segments green
at apex ; venter black : superior appendages forcipated, beneath
bidentated, the inferior appendages short, conical ; feet black, the
femora beneath and tibias exteriorly pallid ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigraa black. (From the description of Say.)
Length 47 millim.
Hob. Massachusetts (Harris).
11. L. unguiculata !
Lestes unguiculata Hagen !
Green-brassy; mouth yellow; dorsum of the thorax brassy-
brown, a line upon the middle and a narrow stripe each side,
yellow ; sides yellow pruinose, with a broad, superior brassy-brown
stripe, and inferiorly with a black, broad vitta; beneath yellow;
feet yellow, femora bilineated with black, tibise inside, and tarsi
black; dorsum of the abdomen green, the apex brown-brassy, a
yellow lunule upon the base of the segments, base and apex of the
tergum pruinose, the sides yellow, venter black; superior appen-
dages black, yellow at base, forcipated, with a basal internal tooth,
and a middle excised lamina, which is dentated upon the margin ;
the inferior appendages long, narrow, cruciate, incurved at the
apex; wings hyaline, pterostigma oblong, fuscous, the sides mar-
gined with yellow ; nine or ten postcubital cross-nervules.
In the female, the inferior fascia of the thorax is wanting.
Length 40 — 30 millim. Alar expanse 43 — 37 millim. Ptero-
stigma lj millim.
Hob. Chicago (Osten Sacken) ; Bergen Hill, New Jersey
(Guex); New York; St. Louis (Engelrnann) ; Wisconsin (Robt.
Kennicott).
12. L. hamata !
Lestes hamata Hageii ! ^
Brownish-brassy; mouth yellow; dorsum of the thorax brown-
brassy, with a middle line, and each side a broad stripe, naiTowed
at the wings, yellow; sides yellow, pruinose, with a superior, broad,
PARAPHLEBIA. f 1
brown-brassy stripe, and a black spot upon the pectus, beneath
yellow; feet yellow, femora exteriorly, tibia? interiorly and tarsi
black ; abdomen obscure green-brassy, with a basal yellow lunule
to the segments ; appendages black, the superior ones forcipated,
with a basal, internal tooth, and a lamina with the margin straight
and its apex dentated ; the inferior appendages long, straight,
narrow, flat, the apex rounded; wings hyaline, pterostigma oblong,
black, the sides margined with yellow ; eleven postcubital cross-
nervules.
Length 42 — 38 millim. Alar expanse 45 — 43 millim. Ptero-
stigma H millim.
Hab. Bergen Hill, New Jersey (Guex); Florida (Osten Sacken);
Chicago (id.); Wisconsin (Robt. Kennicott); North Red River
(id.).
13. L. forcipata!
forcipata Ramb. Neuropt. 246, 4.
Brassy-green; mouth yellow; dorsum of the thorax green-brassy
or with a middle line and a stripe each side, yellow £ ; sides
yellow, with a superior, green-brassy stripe, dilated at the wings,
or with an inferior black stripe (J*) ; feet yellow, femora bilineated
with black, tibiae interiorly and tarsi black ; abdomen brassy-green,
sides yellow, or at the base and apex pruinose (J* ); a basal lunule
upon the segments yellow; appendages black, the superior ones
forcipated, on the inside bidentated, the intermediate lamina with
its margin rather straight, serrated ; the inferior appendages long,
flat, the apex dilated interiorly, somewhat spoon-shaped ; wings
hyaline ; pterostigma black, margined with yellow at the sides ;
twelve postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 35 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim. Pterostigma li
millim.
Hab. Chicago; Washington (Osten Sacken) ; Wisconsin (Robt.
Kenuicott). Extremely like L. nympha, of Europe, it seems
hardly different from that species. Is this the true L. forcipata
of Rambur ?
PARAPHLEBIA SELYS.
Postcostal space furnished with two or three areoles ; sectors
numerous.
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1. P. zoe!
Paraphlebia zoe Selys ! Monog. Agrion.
Apex of the wings black.
Hab. Mexico (Collection of De Selys Longchamps).
PALAEMNEMA SELYS.
The quadrangular space oblong ; the second sector of the tri-
angle almost wanting.
1. P. paulina!
Agrion paulina Drnry, II; tab. xlvi, fig. 4. — Euphaea paulina Ramb.
Neuropt. 231, 5. Oliv. Enc. Method. VII, 572, No. 18.
Reddish-blackish ; thorax thick ; wings hyaline, fuscous at the
apex, at the base having the second and third humeral spaces yel-
lowish-rufescent; pterostigma long, narrow. (Rarnbur.)
Hab. Honduras. (Collection of De Selys Longchamps.)
TRICHOCNEMIS SELYS.
Quadrangular space sub-oblong ; pterostigma rhornboidal (cf.
Poey, Ins. Cuba, 464.)
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1. T. tibialis.
Platycnemis tibialis Ramb. Neuropt. 241, 3.
Azure-blue ; thorax in front with three stripes, and a lateral line
black-greenish ; abdomen above greenish-black, a dorsal interrupt-
ed line, the posterior margin of the segments, the last segment and
the sides yellowish or blue(?); feet armed with long cilia, yellowish,
the anterior femora black, the base interiorly yellow, the anterior
tibite exteriorly black; the posterior femora black exteriorly, line-
ated with yellow, tarsi black; wings hyaline; pterostigma rufous.
($?. From the description of Rarnbur.)
Hab. North America. (Collection of De Selys Longcharaps.)
2. T. minuta.
Trichocnemis minuta Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 464.
Brassy-brown ; mouth, front, a transverse occipital stripe, an
antehumeral stripe, the sides of the thorax and the base and sides
of the segments of the abdomen, pale reddish ; wings hyaline ;
PROTONEURA. 73
pterostigma rhomboidal, fuscous, the interior part obscurer. (From
the description of De Selys.)
Length near 27 milliin. Alar expanse 32 millim.
Nab. Calisco, Cuba (De Selys).
PROTONEURA SELYS.
Quadrangular space oblong ; no second sector of the triangle
(cf. Poey, Ins. Cuba, p. 470).
1. P. capillaris.
Agrion capillare Ramb. Neuropt. 280, 30. — Protoneura capillaris Selys,
Poey Ins. Cuba, 471.
Extremely slender ; thorax steel-blue, above blackish-violet ;
abdomen hair-like, violet-black, the third segment extremely long,
marked with a large, pale greenish-blue spot; wings long, ex-
tremely narrow, hyaline; the pterostigma black, subquadrate. (J* .
From the description of De Selys.)
Length near 20 millim. Alar expanse 35 millim.
Hob. Cuba. (Collection of De Selys Longcharnps.)
2. P. antennata.
Agrion antennata Say, Journ. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 39, 3.
£ . Obscure bluish-green, somewhat metallic; head green be-
fore, mouth yellow, vertex and occiput black, the latter with a
glaucous band which is clavate at each end; eyes dark greenish,
above blackish ; antennae with the two basal joints thicker than
the others, equal in length, the second one cylindrical, the third
attenuated at base ; dorsum of the thorax with a glaucous stripe
each side ; feet pale, with a broad black line on the femora and
one on the tibice, excepting the posterior ones ; abdomen with a
blue band at the base of the segments, the sides green, venter
glaucous, with a black line ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma rhomb-
oidal. (From Say's description.)
Length near 33 millim.
Hob. Indiana.
A species not seen by me. Say says: " Two basal joints of the
antennae subequal," but from the description and from analogy, I
conclude that, not the first and second segments, but the second
and third, are equal: the first segment is always very short in the
Agrions.
74 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
The length of the second segment in Agrion antennata Say,
shows that it does not belong to the genus Agrion in its stricter
sense. I am not quite sure if it is a Protoneura.
AGRION FAB.
The apical sector straight; the postcostal space simple ; the quad-
rangular space trapezoidal, with the exterior, inferior angle acute;
the pterostigma small, rhomboidal ; abdominal appendages of the
males short.
(Nehalennia Selys.)
The abdomen long and very slender; the colors brazen.
1. A. Irene !
Agrion Irene Hagen !
Bright brassy-green ; head yellow in front ; the third article of
the antennae annulated with pale; the hind margin of the protho-
rax broad triangular £ , or biemarginated 9 ; dorsurn of the tho-
rax bright brassy-green, the sides yellowish, above brassy-green ;
feet pale, exteriorly lineated with black ; the abdomen slender,
brassy-green, the sides and a basal yellow lunule upon the 3 — 6
segments; segment 8 with an apical spot, 9 with a triangular dor-
sal one, 10 almost altogether blue J1, or 9 blue at the sides, and
10 blue at the apex 9, the tenth segment has the margin excised,
dentated ; appendages extremely short, the superior ones two-
parted, obtuse, the interior branch longer; the inferior append-
ages are longer, blue, triangularly tuberculated ; 9 apex of the
10th segment cleft; with the appendages obtuse, short, yellow ;
the eighth segment with no ventral spine ; wings hyaline ; ptero-
stigma short, rhomboidal, luteous ; from nine to eleven postcubital
cross-nervules.
Length 25 — 28 millim. Alar expanse 28 — 30 millim.
Hob. Chicago and Florida (Osten Sacken); Wisconsin and Illi-
nois (Robt. Kennicott); New Jersey (TJhler) ; Maine (Packard).
A most beautiful species.
2. A. macrogaster.
Agrion macrogaster Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 465.
Brassy-brown; dorsum of -the prothorax testaceous, the hind
AGRION, 75
lobe black, emarginated upon the middle ; dorsutn of the thorax,
brown-brassy, each side with a testaceous stripe, sides and beneath
pale; feet pale, femora exteriorly black; abdomen extremely slen-
der, brassy-brown, with the incisures pale ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma rhomboidal, fuscous, interiorly obscurer. (J1. From the
description of De Selys.)
Length near 46 millim. Alar expanse 43 millim.
Nab. Jamaica (De Selys Longchamps).
(Ischnura Claarp.)
3. A. iners!
Ayr ion iners Hagen!
Brassy-black, varied with green and blue ; head black, occiput
each side with a green point JVor a bluish one 9 ; prothorax
with the posterior lobe short, broader in the middle, rounded,
hardly elevated ; dorsuni of the thorax brassy-brown, each side
with a narrow green stripe; sides green, a line beneath black; feet
black; femora and tibice interiorly and the tarsi in part green;
abdomen brassy-black, the first articulations steel blue, 3 — 5 with
a medially interrupted yellow ring upon the base of each, 8 entirely
blue, 9 — 10 sides blue g and 9 ; appendages short, the superior
ones obtuse, with a process interiorly, beneath ; the inferior ap-
pendages a little longer, cylindrical, subarcuated ; the posterior
margin of the last segment elevated in the middle, sub-bifid; the
female has an acute ventral spine upon the 8th segment ; wings
hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, luteous, the anterior ones of the
male black, with the apex whitish ; eight postcubital cross-nervules.
9 . Yar. aurantiaca. Head green in front, with bluish occi-
pital points ; dorsum of the thorax orange, a broad brassy-brown
stripe upon the middle, the sides dirty green ; abdomen brassy-
black, the sides dirty green ; the first segment orange, the second
orange, with a brassy-black apical spot; the third to the fifth with
a basal yellow ring which is interrupted in the middle; the follow-
ing segments are brassy-black; feet pale, with an external fuscous
line.
Length 31 — 34 millims. Alar expanse 31 — 40 millim.
ffab. New York; Maryland (Uhler) ; Washington (Osten
Sacken) ; Louisiana (Schaum) ; Mexico (Deppe) ; Tampico
(Saussure) ; Cuba (Osten Sacken).
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The colors of the living insect were made known to me by
Baron Osten Sacken.
4. A. tuberculatum.
Agrion tuberculatum Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 467.
Black-brassy; a round blue point upon each side of the occiput;
posterior lobe of the prothorax produced in the middle ; thorax
yellowish-greeji, in front black-brassy, with two blue stripes; eighth
segment of the abdomen blue, the tenth, in the males, tubercula*ted
behind ; wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, fuscous ; ptero-
stigma of the male black within. (From the description of De
Selys Longchamps )
Length 35 millim. Alar expanse 37 millini.
Hal. Cuba ; Campeachy ; Cayenne.
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5. A. ramburii !
Agrion ramburii Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 468.
Brassy-brown, varied with green and blue ; head each side with
a green occipital point; prothorax with the posterior lobe small,
having a flat tubercle upon the middle, in the female broader ;
dorsum of the thorax brassy-brown, each side with a narrow green
vitta ; the sides green, with a medial black stripe at the wings ;
feet pale^exteriorlyxlineated with black ; abdomen brassy-fuscous,
the sides green, segments 3:— 6 with a yellow, medially interrupted,
basal band, segments 8 — 9 blue, with a black stripe each side ;
appendages short, superior ones thick, triangular, excavated on
the inside ; inferior ones acute, unguiculated ; the last abdominal
segment with the posterior margin elevated in the middle and bifid ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma small, rhomboidal, in the anterior wings
of the male black.
9 Either thorax reddish-yellow, the dorsum of the thorax with
a broad brassy stripe, the whole of the abdominal dorsum brassy-
fuscous; or pruinose, black, with the apex of the abdominal seg-
ments also black.
Length 25 — 28 millim. Alar expanse 27 — 30 millim.
Hal. New York ; "Washington ; Dalton, Georgia (Osten
Sacken); Philadelphia; Bergen Hill, New Jersey (Guex.) ; St.
Louis. I have not seen the specimens of De Selys ; he notes
them to be from Martinique ; Campeachy ; Yucatan and Yera
Cruz; are they different? I formerly called my species Agrion
expertum !
AGRION. 77
6. A. positum !
Agrion positum Hagen !
Brassy-fuscous, varied with green ; head brassy-fuscous, each
side with an occipital point green (<£), or blue (?); prothorax
with the posterior lobe small, rounded and produced in the middle,
dorsum of the thorax brassy-brown, each side anteriorly with a
stripe and at the wings a point (forming an 1 sign) green, sides
yellowish-green, with a black line upon the middle; feet yellowish,
the femora, and the tibiae exteriorly black ; abdomen brassy-fuscous,
sides yellowish-green, the brassy-fuscous color is dilated before the
apex of the segments ; the incisures black, the first green ; seg-
ments 3 — 7 with a basal yellow lunule ; the dorsum of the last
segment has, sometimes, a blue pruinose, quadrangular spot, the
posterior margin of this segment is elevated in the middle, and
bifid ; appendages short, yellow, the superior ones tuberculose
inflated, a small tooth, exteriorly, upon the middle, the inferior
ones flat, recurved, with the apex black, serrated ; the tenth seg-
ment in the female, with the hind margin yellow, entire ; no ventral
spine ; the appendages short, trigonal, approximated, yellow ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma small, rhomboidal, fuscous, surrounded
with pale. 7 — 9 postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 24 — 28 millirn. Alar expanse 23 — 34 millim.
Hab. Savannah, Dalton, Georgia ; Washington (Osten Sacken).
The colors of the living insect were made known to me by Baron
Osten Sacken. The male (from Dalton) is sometimes smaller,
having 5 postcubital cross-nervules ; but it can hardly be a dis-
tinct species. The adult female is black, pruinose, with the apex
of the segments black-brassy.
7. A. hastatum !
Agrion hastata Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 38, 2. Selys ! Poey Ins.
Cuba, 470 (subg. ANOMALAGRION). Agrion anomalum Ramb.! Neu-
ropt. 2S1, 31. Agrion venerinotatum Haldernan, Proc. Acad. Philad.
1844, 55.
Brassy-green, varied with orange and yellow ; head brassy-
green in front, and an occipital point each side orange ; prothorax
witn the posterior lobe somewhat produced in the middle ; dorsum
of the thorax brassy-green, each side with a narrow yellow stripe,
sides yellow, superiorly brassy-green, inferiorly a black stripe at
the wings ; feet yellow, apex of the femora with a black stripe
78 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
exteriorly : abdomen yellow, segments 1 — 2 dorsum brassy-green,
3 and 6 with a very narrow dorsal spot before the apex, 4 and 5
with a basal acute spot and an apical orbicular one, 7 the dorsum
entirely, and the eighth with a quadrangular basal spot brassy-
green. (The markings in the younger individuals are very varia-
ble; the second segment has the dorsal spot incised each side before
the apex, 3 with the dorsal spot interrupted, 7 with the basal spot
bifid, 8 and the following ones entirely yellow ; sometimes 3 — 6
have a basal stripe, and the apical spot almost obsolete, and 7 —
10 yellow.) The tenth segment has a long process upon the mid-
dle, which is oblique, cylindrical and bifid at the apex ; append-
ages short, yellow, superior ones broader, incurved, broadly bifid,
inferior ones a little longer, unguiculated ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma of the posterior ones rhomboidal black, of the anterior ones
very singular, larger, rufous, surrounded with yellow, and not
attaining to the costal margin ; seven postcubital cross-nervules.
9 Head orange, having a broad brassy-green, transverse stripe ;
posterior lobe of the prothorax produced in the middle ; dorsum
of the thorax orange, with a broad brassy-green stripe ; sometimes
a black humeral line ; sides yellowish ; feet pale yellow ; abdomen
orange, segment 6, a dorsal line dilated at the apex, 7 — 9 dorsum
brassy-fuscous, 9 having a yellow middle fascia ; posterior margin
of 10 entire ; ventral spine of 8 almost absent; appendages short,
trigonal, thick, yellow; wings hyaline, pterostigma of each of the
wings regular, yellowish.
Var. 9. Brassy-black, pruinose, thorax and abdomen with the
sides yellow ; the feet exteriorly lineated with black.
Length 23 — 27 millim. Alar expanse 23 — 30 millim.
Hab. Indiana (Say); Maine (Packard) ; Mass. (Scudder); Ma-
ryland (Uhler); Bergen Hill, Xew Jersey (Guex.); Savannah,
Georgia (Osten Sacken); Louisiana (Schaum); Florida (Osten
Sacken, Norton); Pennsylvania (Haldeman); Cuba; Merida;
Venezuela. A common species.
The form of the pterostigma in the anterior wings of the male
is very singular; no other species of Odonatahave the pterostigma
so separated from the costal margin.
8. A. capreolus !
Agrion capreolus Hagen !
Brassy-black, head in front, and an occipital point each side
AGRION. 79
green; posterior margin of the prothorax, with the middle lobe
small, rounded; dorsnm of the thorax black, each side of it a green
stripe ; sides green, with a small black stripe at the wings ; feet
pale, exteriorly, in part, lineated with black ; abdomen very slen-
der, brassy-black, the sides and a basal annulus upon segments
3 — 6 yellowish-green; apical half of 8, and 9 entirely blue; a
stout process upon the margin of the tenth segment, which is two-
horned; appendages short, superior ones black, trigonal, obtuse;
inferior ones yellowish, longer, two-parted, the external branch
broader, trigonal, the internal branch longer, cylindrical, uugui-
culated, strongly recurved ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma small,
yellow, in the middle fuscous. Six to eight postcubital cross-
nervules. Male.
Length 22 millims. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hob. Porto Rico, Brazil.
Almost the smallest species known.
9.. A. aduncum !
Agrion aduncum Hagen !
Black, varied with yellow ; head black, in front and an occipital
spot which is cuneiform, each side, yellow; posterior margin of
the prothorax rounded ; dorsutn of the thorax luteous, with a broad
medial, black stripe; sides luteous; feet luteous, exteriorly lineated
with black; abdomen very slender, brassy-black, the sides, and a
basal ring, which is excised in the middle, yellow, upon segments
3 — 8; 9 — 10 blue (J*), or 9 at the sides and 10 entirely luteous
( 9 ) ; appendages very short, the superior ones longer, biparted,
the external branch cylindrical, obtuse, straight; the internal
branch slender, curved downwards ; the inferior appendages obtuse,
emarginated at the apex; ? apex of the tenth segment cleft; the
appendages obtuse, luteous ; eighth segment with an acute ven-
tral spine; wings hyaline; pterostigma small, rhomboidal, luteous,
fuscous in the middle. Nine postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 26 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
' Hal). Cuba.
10. A. discolor.
Agrion discolor Burm. ! Handb. II, 819, 8.
Uniformly testaceous, or with the dorsum rosy, or brassy-black;
thorax two-striped ; pterostigma pale. Female. (From Burmeis-
ter's description.)
80 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
Length 26 millim.
Hab. South Carolina (Zimmerman); unknown to me; is it not
a female Agrion saucium Burm. ?
A. dorsale Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba is perhaps different.
11. A. credulum !
Agrion creduJum Hagen!
Brassy fuscous; head in front and an occipital point each side
blue; posterior lobe of the prothorax short, rounded; dorsum of
the thorax brassy fuscous, each side with a blue stripe, sides blue,
a line in the middle black ; feet black, femora within, base of the
tibiae exteriorly, and apex of the tarsi pale ; abdomen brassy
fuscous, the sides and a basal ring upon segments 3 — 6 yellow;
segment 8 entirely, 9 base only blue; segment 10 elevated in
the middle of the margin, sub-bifid; appendages short, apex of
the superior ones arcuated, biparted ; the internal branch longer,
at the apex obliquely truncated, the external branch conical ; the
inferior appendages a little longer, unguiculated; wings hyaline,
pterostigma of the anterior ones black, exteriorly. whitish, of the
posterior wings luteous. Eight postcubital cross-nervules. Female
similarly colored, pterostigma of all the wings luteous. (The spe-
cimen is very much mutilated.)
Var. 9. Head brassy-green, in front and an occipital point
each side orange, posterior lobe of the prothorax short, rounded ;
thorax orange, dorsum with a middle brassy-green stripe ; feet
yellowish, exteriorly black; abdomen brassy-green, sides, a ring
upon the basal segments and the second segment each side at base
orange yellow. (The apex of the abdomen is destroyed.)
Length 30 millim. Alar expanse 29 millim.
Hab. Cuba (Poey); St. Thomas. Allied to Agrion ramlurii.
12. A. defixum!
Agrion drjixum Hagen !
Black; head in front and an occipital point each side green ;
posterior margin of the prothorax short, rounded; dorsum of the
thorax black, each side with a green stripe; sides green, a small
stripe at the wings black; feet green, exteriorly black ; abdomen
black, sides, and a basal annulus upon segments 3 — 6 green, 8 — 9
blue, at base a little black; 10 with the margin elevated in the
middle, sub-bifid ; appendages short, superior ones two-branched,
AGRION. 81
external branch conical, straight, internal branch longer, flat; in-
ferior ones unguiculated, longer, oblique, recurved; wings hyaline;
pterostigma of the anterior ones black, exteriorly white; of the
posterior wings luteous ; seven postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 30 rnillim. Alar expanse 30 inillim.
Hob. Northern California.
13. A. denticolle !
Agrion denticolle Burm. Handb. II, 819, 9.
Black ; head anteriorly, and an occipital point each side, blue ;
margin of the prothorax straight, the middle lobe small, narrow,
rounded; dorsum of the thorax brassy-black (£ ), or each side
with a blue stripe (9); sides blue, or with an anterior, superior
black spot (9); feet pale, femora and tibia? partly black, or
lineated with black (9); abdomen (eight last segments of the
male destroyed) brassy-black, the sides and a basal ring upon
3 — 6 yellowish, 8 blue, 9 with a large dorsal spot, and the base
covered with blue; 10 dorsura medially elevated, plicated, yellow;
appendages short, yellow ; eighth segment with no ventral spine ;
wings hyaline ; pterostigma luteous ; anterior pterostigma of the
male black ; ten postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 27 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim.
Hab. Moretia, Mexico (Saussure).
14. A. demorsum !
Agrion demorsum Hagen !
Brassy-green ; head in front, and an occipital point, blue ; pos-
terior margin of the prothorax small, rounded ; * dorsum of the
thorax brassy-green, each side of it a blue stripe ; sides blue ; feet
pale, exteriorly black ; abdomen brassy-green, the sides and a
basal annulus, on segments 3 — 6, yellowish, segments 8 — 9 blue ;
posterior margin of 10 with a narrow, elevated middle process, the
apex bifid; appendages short, superior ones fuscous, two-branched,
external branch conical, straight, the internal one longer, flat ;
inferior appendages yellow, broadly bifid, the branches spreading
apart, unguiculated, the apex black ; the upper branch longer ;
wings hyaline ; pterostigma luteous, anterior ones of the <£ black,
exteriorly white ; 8 — 9 postcubital cross-nervules. (The abdo-
men of the female is partly destroyed.)
6
82 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length 2t millim. Alar expanse 30 millim.
Hob. Moretia, Mexico (Saussure).
15. A. verticals.
Agrion verticale Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 37, 1.
Obscure blue, somewhat pruinose ; head green, each side with a
blue occipital spot; thorax blue, dorsum with a middle brassy
stripe, and the sides with a black line ; feet deep green, femora
exteriorly black, tibiae with an exterior black line ; abdomen brassy-
green, the incisures pale, segments 9 — 10 blue; 10 with the pos-
terior middle somewhat elevated, elevation excised (£ ), or the
segments pruinose, black at their apex, with pale incisures (9);
venter pale green, with a middle black line ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma rhomboidal, fuscous. (From the description of Say.)
Length 25 millim.
Hob. Indiana (Say). "Rare. August."
Unknown to me ; perhaps it is A. positum?
16. A. exsulans !
Agrion exsulans Hagen 1
Black ; head blue in front (J*), or yellowish-green (9); occiput
each side with a cuneiform blue spot ; hind margin of the protho-
rax short, rounded, with a small tubercle upon the middle, which
is larger in the female ; dorsum of the thorax black, each side with
a blue stripe ; sides blue, with a narrow black line upon the mid-
dle (J*)' or Sreen> with a black middle stripe divided by a yellow
line ; a humeral yellow stripe each side, margined with fuscous,
and with the srdes green (9); feet pale, exteriorly lineated with
black ; abdomen brassy-black, the sides and a ring upon the base
of segments 2 — 6 bright blue; segment 10 with the posterior
margin elevated and subexcised ; appendages black, superior ones
rounded bifid, the inferior branch longer ; inferior appendages
unguiculated, slender, recurved; or (9) dorsum of the abdomen
fuscous, sides dirty green, and with the apex of the ninth and the
whole of the tenth segment blue ; the appendages short ; the
eighth segment having a long ventral spine ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma small, rhomboidal, black (J*), or luteous (9) ; nine post-
cubital cross-nervules.
Length 33 — 36 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
. AGRION. 83
Hob. Philadelphia; Berkeley Springs, Va. (Osten Sacken);
Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
The colors in the living insect were communicated to me by
Baron Osten Sacken.
17. A. prognatum!
Agrion prognatum Hagen !
Green-brassy, varied with green ; head above green-brassy, the
mouth and a point upon each side of the occiput bright green ;
posterior margin of the prothorax very short, with a small tuber-
cle upon the middle ; dorsum of the thorax green-brassy, each side
with a bright green stripe ; sides green, with two short green-brassy
stripes at the wings ; feet pale, knees exteriorly lineated with black ;
abdomen slender, green-brassy, the sides, and a basal lunule upon
segments 3 — 6, green ; segment 9 entirely, and 10 with the sides
bluish-green ; the tenth segment has an elevated process upon the
middle of the posterior margin, which is long, cylindrical, black,
the apex yellow; superior appendages bifid, the exterior branch
long, narrow, laminated, incurved ; the inferior branch hardly
shorter, yellow, curved downwards ; the inferior appendages yel-
low, unguiculated ; wings hyaline, pterostigma large, rhomboidal,
snow-white, interiorly brownish-black ; eight postcubital cross-
nervules (J*).
Length 35 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim.
Hab. Berkeley Springs, Va. (Osten Sacken).
The colors of the living insect were made known to me by Baron
Osten Sacken.
18. A. pollutum!
Agrion pollutum Hagen I
Brassy-fuscous ; head brassy-fuscous, in front and a cuneiform,
occipital spot each side orange ; hind margin of the prothorax
rounded ; dorsum of the thorax brassy-fuscous, each side with a
broad orange stripe; sides yellowish, with a black line inferiorly;
feet yellowish, knees sublineated with fuscous ; abdomen long,
slender, brassy-fuscous ; sides yellow, lateral margin yellow ; seg-
ments 2 — 6 with a basal yellow annulus ; 9 entirely and 10 sides
blue (J1), or the apex of 9 and the whole of 10 blue (9); appen-
dages, superior ones long, with the apex broader, dolabriform ;
84 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
the inferior ones shorter, unguiculated ; apex of the tenth segment
in the 9 cleft ; the appendages short ; eighth segment with the
ventral spine long ; wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, nar-
row, fuscous ; ten .postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 34 millim. Alar expanse 34 — 38 naillim.
Hob. Florida (Osten Sacken ; Norton).
19. A. signatum !
Agrion signatum Hagen!
Fuscous ; head in front and a cuneiform occipital spot each side
yellow; posterior margin of the prothorax rounded; dorsum of
the thorax each side with a broad yellow stripe ; sides yellow, with
a middle black line; feet yellow; abdomen long, slender, fuscous,
the sides, segments 3 — 7 with a basal annulus, 9 entirely and 10 at
the sides, yellow ; superior appendages long, straight, subdolabri-
form, the apex not broader, at the extremity of the apex subin-
curved, black ; inferior appendages short, black, subincurved ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, fuscous, J1 ; ten postcu-
bital cross-nervules.
Length 35 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot) ; Louisiana (Schaum).
20. A. coecum!
Agrion coecum Hagen !
Black ; head brassy-black, with a blue occipital spot each side ;
posterior margin of the prothorax each side sub-excised; dorsum
of the thorax brassy-black, each side with a rosy-blue stripe ; sides
rosy-blue, with a black stripe inferiorly ; feet yellowish, exteriorly
black ; abdomen shorter, slender, black, segments 1 — 3 rosy-blue,
2 with a forked line, and 3 with the sides and apex black, 8 and 9
blue ; appendages black, superior ones long,, the base beneath do-
labriform, the apex cylindrical; the inferior ones short, approxi-
mated cylindrical, recurved ; wings hyaline, pterostigma small, rhom-
boidal, black; female paler, abdomen brassy-fuscous, segments 3 — 7
with a yellow basal annulus, the sides, and eighth segment almost
entirely blue, the ventral spine acute; 10 — 12 postcubital cross-
nervules. Male.
Length 31 millim. Alar expense 36 millim.
Hob. St. Thomas; Cuba. (Osten Sacken, Poey.)
AGRION. 85
Subgenus Pyrrhosoma CHARP.
21. A. saucium !
Agrion saucium Burm. ! Handb. II, 819, 10.
Red; head above black J*, or middle blackish-fuscous 9 ; pos-
terior lobe of the prothorax short, the middle sub-depressed ; dor-
sum of the thorax black J*, or red 9 , sides yellowish-red ; feet pale
yellow ; abdomen red ; the seventh segment has the sides at apex
black, and the remaining segments are entirely black ; 9 apex of
the seventh segment each side with a point, and 8 and 9 are en-
tirely black ; appendages short, red, the superior ones depressed,
flat, narrow, subsinuated; inferior ones a little longer, unguicu-
lated; the tenth segment has the middle of the posterior margin
elevated, excised; appendages of the female short, red, trigonal;
the eighth segment with a longer ventral spine; wings hyaline,
pterostigma rhomboidal, fuscous; 11 — 8 postcubital cross-ner-
vules.
Length 26 — 22 millim. Alar expanse 31 — 27 millim.
Hab. Washington, Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken); Maryland,
Pennsylvania (Uhler); South Carolina (Zimmerman); Illinois
(Kennicott) ; Maine (Packard) ; Mass. (Scudder).
22. A. salvum !
Agrion salvum Hagen !
Red; head above with a broad brassy-green stripe; the poste-
rior lobe of the prothorax broader, rounded, each side sub-excised;
dorsum of the thorax red, upon the middle a broad brassy-green
stripe excised each side at the wings ; sides yellowish-red, with
a superior short stripe brassy-green upon the middle; feet yellow-
ish; abdomen red, venter paler; margin of the tenth segment ex-
cised in the middle; appendages short, red; superior ones cylindri-
cal, straight, acute with a tooth inferiorly before the apex; inferior
ones a little longer, unguiculated, subrecurved; (9 apex of the
abdomen wanting;) wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, fus-
cous; 9 — 11 postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 28 millim. Alar expanse 31 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Deppe).
86 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
23. A. vulneratum !
Agrion vulneratum Hagen!
Brassy-green, varied with red ; head brassy-green, in front red;
posterior lobe of the prothorax larger, margined with yellow, the
sides obliquely truncated; dorsum of the thorax obscure brassy-
green, each side with a narrow sulphur-yellow humeral line; sides
sulphur-yellow; superiorly, a broad, bifid, brassy-green stripe, and
two lines, the second one interrupted, black; feet reddish-yellow,
femora exteriorly lineated with black; abdomen long, red, apex of
the dorsum infuscated, or (9) blackish-fuscous; appendages short,
red, superior ones broad, triangular, flat, incurved at the apex;
inferior ones oblong, broad, the apex truncated; segment 10 with
the margin excised in the middle; appendages of the female short,
broad, yellow; eighth ventral segment with no spine; wings hya-
line, pterostigma rhomboidal, fuscous. 11 postcubital cross-ner-
vules.
Var. 9 Dorsum of the abdomen fusco-aeneous, with a broadly
interrupted yellow ring at the base of the segments.
Length 33 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hab. Porto Rico (Moritz); Cuba (Poey); Essequibo, Guiana.
24. A. dominicanum.
Agrion dominicanum Selys. Poey, Ins. Cuba, 466.
Red ; vertex, occiput, and the thorax above fusco-aeneous, with
four pale red stripes; the sides and beneath yellow; feet pale red;
wings hyaline, rather broad, pterostigma sub-elongated, fuscous.
(From the description of De Selys Longchamps.)
Length 31 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hab. Hayti.
25. A. rufulum!
Agrion rufulum Hagen !
Rufous; head in front and behind yellowish; hind margin of the
prothorax rounded ; dorsum of the thorax rufous, sides yellowish ;
feet yellow; abdomen rufous, the sides and venter yellowish (the
apex destroyed) ; wings hyaline, veins red, pterostigma rhomboidal,
sanguineous. ^ . 11 postcubital cross-nervules.
Length about 3t millim. Alar expanse 38 millini.
Hab. North California.
AGRION. 87
Subgenus AgTion CHAKP.
26. A. annexum!
Agrion annexum Hagen!
Black, brassy; head and thorax villous; head marked with blue-
black (J1), or reddish-yellow (9); occiput each side with a large
spot, which is serrated posteriorly; hind lobe of the prothorax
rounded, subexcised on each side ; dorsum of the thorax black,
brassy, each side with a broad blue stripe (J"), or reddish-yellow;
sides blue, or reddish-yellow, with an abrupt black, middle line ;
feet black, femora interiorly, tibiae exteriorly (J") or base exter-
nally (?) pale; abdomen (J1) blue, the first segment with a basal
spot, segment 2 with an orbicular, pedunculated apical one, 3 — 5
with the apical half anteriorly hastated, 6 — 7 almost entirely, and
10 entirely black-brassy ; 8 and 9 are blue, with a black point each
side on the middle; margin of 10 excised in the middle; append-
ages short, black, superior ones cylindrical, obtuse, straight; the
inferior ones a little longer, trigonal, subunguiculated; (9) red-
dish-yellow; segment 1 with a basal spot, 2 with a dorsal stripe,
dilated before the apex, the rest with the dorsum fusco-aeneous ;
3 — 8 have each side a triangular, larger, reddish-yellow spot; the
margin of the tenth segment cleft in the middle; ventral spine of
segment 8 long, acute; appendages short, thick, black; wings hy-
aline, pterostigma rhomboidal, large, fuscous; fourteen postcubital
cross-nervules.
Length 35 — 37 millim. Alar expanse 43 — 50 millim.
Htib. Sitka (Eschscholz; Berlin Museum).
Allied to A. cyathigerum Charp., of Europe.
27. A. durum!
Agrion durum Hagen !
Black-brassy, head and thorax villous; (J") marked with blue,
or (9) with yellowish-red; allied to the preceding species, but
may be distinguished from it by the occipital spots being narrow,
cuneiform, not posteriorly serrated; the prothorax has the posterior
lobe rounded, not subexcised ; the dorsum of the thorax has a
middle line, which is blue or reddish-yellow; the feet pale, femora
exteriorly and the tibia? interiorly black, tarsi pale; abdomen ( J1),
segments 3 — 6 nigro-aeneous at the apex, longly hastated ; supe-
88 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
rior appendages broad, excavated within, with a pale tubercle be-
neath ; the inferior ones pale, hardly longer, acute ; or ( 9 ) dorsal
bands of the segments, fusco-aeneous, narrower, dilated before the
apex; pterostigina obscure, that of the males black; fourteen post-
cubital cross-nervules.
Length 37 — 42 millim. Alar expanse 44 — 50 millira.
Hob. Maryland (Uhler); Louisiana (Schaum) ; Florida (Osten
Sacken; Norton).
28. A. civile !
Agrion civile Hagen!
Black-brassy, varied with blue (^), or green (9); head and
thorax villous; head in front blue, occiput each side with an elon-
gated blue spot ; posterior margin of the prothorax rounded, en-
tire; dorsum of the thorax nigro-aeneous, each side with a broad
blue stripe (J1 ), or green (9); sides blue in both sexes; beneath
pruinose ; feet pale, femora and tibiae with an imperfect, external
black line; abdomen blue (c£), segment 1 with a small basal spot,
2 with an orbicular apical one, 3 — 5 with an acute apical band,
brassy-black; 6 — 7 brassy-black, blue at base; 8 — 9 blue; 10
brassy-black, the margin broadly excised ; superior appendages
black, long, divaricated, bifld, with a pale oval tubercle set between;
inferior appendages short, pale, unguiculated ; or (9) blue, a dor-
sal large, lanceolated spot, dilated before the apex of the segments
and not attaining the base upon segments 4 — 7, nigro-aeneous ;
margin of the tenth segment cleft; appendages short, thick, lurid;
ventral spine of the eighth segment acute ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigmarhomboidal, exteriorly rounded, black (J1), or luteous (9);
eleven postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 32 — 35 millim. Alar expanse 37 millim.
Hob. New York; Maryland (Uhler); Washington (Osten Sack-
en); Texas (Friedrich); Pecos River; Matamoras, Mexico.
The colors of the living insect were made known to me by Baron
Osten Sacken.
29. A. praevarum!
Agrion praevarum Hagen !
Black-brassy, varied with blue (J*), or green (9); head and
thorax villous; very closely allied to the preceding species; differs
in having the posterior margin of the prothorax each side excised;
AGRION. 89
abdominal segment 2 has an orbicular spot, which is subacu-
minate in front, the sides sometimes have a line brassy-black, 3 has
an apical spot, acuminated in front, 4 — 6 brassy-black, with the
base blue; superior appendages bifid, no tubercle inserted between ;
the abdomen of the female is marked very much like that of Agrion
civile (the apex is destroyed); dorsum of the thorax with a middle
green line.
Length 32 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Jfab. Mexico (Deppe); female from. Trajos del Oro (Saussure).
30. A. ebrium!
Agrion ebrium Hagen !
Black-brassy, varied with blue ; head and thorax villous ; very
closely allied to Ag. civile, differs in having broader occipital spots,
the femora and tibiae exteriorly, and sometimes the whole of the
tarsi black ; the abdomen has segment 6, upon the apical half,
marked with a hastate, black-brassy spot, the superior appendages
are bifid, no introduced tubercle, the branches equal, parallel (in
A. civile divaricated) ; inferior appendages straight, the apex less
acuminated; eleven postcubital cross-nervules. Male.
Length 29 — 31 millim. Alar expanse 36 — 40 millim.
Hob. Chicago (Osten Sacken) ; North America (Zimmerman) ;
New Orleans (Pfeiffer; the specimen is very much mutilated,
doubtful).
31. A. doubledayi !
Agrion doubledayi Selys ! Revue des Odonates, 209 ; Poey ! Ins. Cuba,
469.
Black-brassy, varied with blue (J*), or yellowish-green? (9);
head brassy-black, in front blue, the occipital spots sublinear; pos-
terior margin of the prothorax rounded; dorsum of the thorax
brassy-black, each side of it is a broad blue stripe, sides blue, a
medial linear spot at the wings; feet pale, femora and tibiae exte-
riorly lineated with black; abdomen (J*) blue, segment 1 with a
basal quadrangular spot, segment 2 with an orbicular apical one,
3 — 5 with an apical ring, 6 with a large hastiform spot, and 7 and
10 entirely brassy-black, 8 — 9 entirely blue; margin of the tenth
segment excised, in the middle somewhat bituberculated ; superior
appendages black, broad, thick, the apex excised, with a pale
tubercle adjacent; the inferior ones pale, acute, oblique; or (9)
90 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
dorsurn of the abdomen brassy-black, with basal yellowish lunules
upon the segments; segment 8 with an acute ventral spine; wings
hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, small, black, or (?) fuscous; ten
postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 31 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hob. Florida (Norton); St. John's Bluff, Florida (Double-
day).
32. A. bipunctulatum !
Agrion bipunctulatum Hagen!
Black-brassy, varied with blue; head black, in front blue, occipi-
tal spots absent; posterior lobe of the prothorax broader, each side
rounded; dorsum of the thorax brassy-black, each side of it a blue
stripe; sides blue, with a black middle line; feet pale, femora and
tibise with an external line, and tho tarsi entirely black ; abdomen
blue ; segment 1 has a basal spot, 2 has an apical point each side,
3 — 6 at the apex, 7 almost entirely brassy-black, 8 — 10 blue;
margin of the last segment subexcised, each side tuberculous, a
bifid tubercle upon the middle inferiorly; appendages extremely
short, black, superior ones cylindrical, inferior ones a little longer,
broader, obtuse, with an apical tooth superiorly; wings hyaline;
pterostigma small, rhomboidal, rufous; eleven postcubital cross-
nervules.
Length 28 millim. Alar expanse 33 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
33. A. violaceum !
Agrion violaceum Hagen !
Violaceous; head with a transverse black stripe superiorly; a
large violaceous occipital spot each side; posterior margin of the
prothorax rounded, subexcised in the middle; dorsum of the thorax
violet, upon the middle a narrow black stripe; sides pale violet, a
bifid stripe above at the wings and a line upon the middle, black ;
feet pale, femora exteriorly, tibia? interiorly and the tarsi entirely
black; abdomen (J*) violet, segments 2 to 6 with an apical spot
each side, and 7 almost entirely black; margin of 10 broadly ex-
cised; appendages short, superior ones broad, obtuse, inferior ones
larger, the apex sub-bifid; or (9) yellowish-green, segments each
side with an apical stripe and point, and 7 almost entirely black ;
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segment 8 with no ventral spine ; wings hyaline, pterostigraa rhom-
boiclal fuscous; 11 — 15 postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 33 — 36 millim. Alar expanse 40 — 44 rnillim.
Hob. Maryland (Uhler); Berkeley Springs, Virginia; Washing-
ton (Osten Sacken); Pecos River, W. Texas (Capt. Pope); Massa-
chusetts (Scudder) ; Connecticut (Norton); New York (Edwards);
Illinois (Kenuicott); New Jersey, Pennsylvania (Uhler).
34. A. fontium !
Agrion fontium Hagen!
Brassy-black; head black, mouth and an occipital spot each side
blue; posterior margin of the prothorax short, sub-rect; dorsum
of the thorax black, each side of it a broad blue stripe; sides pale-
blue, a stripe superiorly and a line upon the middle black; feet
black, femora interiorly and tibia? exteriorly pale; abdomen slender
black, segments 4 — t with an interrupted, pale basal ring, dorsum
of 9 — 10 blue, 10 with a medial black fascia, the hind margin ex-
cised; appendages short, black, superior ones reniform, broken,
compressed; inferior ones larger, broad, excised; wings hyaline;
pterostigm'a rhomboidal black.
Fourteen postcubital cross-nervules.
Var. Rosaceous ; dorsum of the thorax each side with a broad
rosy stripe ; sides with a rosy point on the superior stripe at the
wings; (9) abdominal segments at sides, a dorsal line upon the
middle and a basal ring pale; no ventral spine.
Length 36 millim. Alar expanse 42 millim.
Hob. Berkeley Springs, Virginia (Osten Sacken) ; Georgia
(Abbot) ; the variety from Florida (Osten Sacken).
35. A. apicale !
Agrion apicalis Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 40, 4.
Blue ; head with a transverse black stripe above ; posterior mar-
gin of the prothorax subrotund; dorsum of the thorax blue, the
sutures black; sides blue, against the prothorax, superiorly, a
quadrangular black spot (J*); feet pale, femora exteriorly and
tibia? interiorly black; abdomen brassy fuscous, a narrow dorsal
line, a basal annulus to the segments and their sides pale; dorsal
surface of the three last segments blue (J*), or brassy fuscous (9);
appendages small, the superior ones transverse, with a middle and
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internal tooth; inferior ones longer, broad, bifid; margin of the
tenth segment excised, tuberculous; appendages of the female
short, obtuse; margin of the tenth segment cleft; no ventral spine
to the eighth segment; wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal,
fuscous ; fourteen postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 36 millira. Alar expanse 43 millira.
Hob. United States, " very common" (Say) ; Washington ;
Berkeley Springs, Virginia (Osten Sacken).
36. A. funebre !
Agrion funebre Hagen !
Violaceous ; head with an arcuated fascia above, and a trans-
verse occipital streak black ; margin of the prothorax behind, upon
the middle and each side subtruncated ; dorsum of the thorax vio-
laceous, a black stripe upon the middle, sides pale violaceous, a
stripe superiorly, either divided or excised, and a line upon the
middle black; feet pale, femora exteriorly, tibiae interiorly and
tarsi black ; abdomen obscure violaceous, segment 2 each side
with an angulose line, 3 to 6 apex or a spot each side, or entirely
and 7 entirely black, 8 fuscous- at base (?), the following ones vio-
laceous ; appendages short, superior ones obtuse, rounded at the
apex and incurved ; inferior ones longer, oblong, the apex bifid,
the superior branch incurved ; wings hyaline, pterostigma rhom-
boidal, fuscous. J*. Fourteen postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 51 rnillim.
Hob. Mexico (Deppe).
It is allied to the two preceding species.
37. A. extraneum!
Agrion extraneum Hagen !
Very similar to the preceding, differs by having the head black
above ; the posterior margin of the prothorax rounded ; dorsum
of the abdomen black ; margin of the tenth segment excised, be-
neath bituberculated ; superior appendages broader, emarginated,
the apex not incurved ; the inferior ones bifid, the superior branch
very much recurved, obliquely truncated. £ .
Length 35 millim. Alar expanse 42 millim.
Hob. Tampico, Mexico (Saussure).
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38. A. calidum !
Agrion calidum Hagen !
Yery much like the preceding, differs in having the dorsnm of
the thorax black, each side a broad violaceous stripe; sides pale,
a broad stripe above, and an abrupt line upon the middle black ;
feet almost entirely black; abdomen black, segments 9 — 10 blue
above, margin of segment 10 less excised ; superior appendages
reniform, the internal tooth longer; inferior ones oblong, broad,
the apex excised ; wings hyaline sub-infumated, pterostigma larger,
black. Fifteen postcubital cross-nervules.
9 Head luteous (?), a stripe superiorly and a post-occipital
streak black ; margin of the prothorax behind sub-excised in the
middle and each side, the thoracic process on each side laminated,
oblong, curved exteriorly; dorsum of the thorax luteous (?), with
a black stripe in the middle, sides luteous, with a black humeral
line, dilated anteriorly ; feet pale, the femora exteriorly, the
tibite interiorly and the tarsi black; abdomen luteous (?), seg-
ment 2 each side, with an ante-apical spot, and 3 — 7 upon the
apex black ; dorsum of 10 almost entirely cleft ; appendages short,
luteous; no ventral spine; wings sub-infuinated, pterostigma large,
rufous.
Length 37 — 40 millim. Alar expanse 46 — 50 millirn.
Hob. Tampico, Mexico (Saussure) ; California.
I saw a male taken at the same place (Tampico), allied to this
species, but the epistoma was brassy-green, the sides of the thorax
had no middle black line ; the appendages destroyed. Is it a dis-
tinct species ? The male from California is without head and
appendages, and is, as yet, doubtful.
39. A. immundum!
Agrion immundum Hagen !
Most like A. apicale, but differs in the color, being luteous, per-
haps rosaceous ; dorsum of the thorax with a middle black stripe;
a humeral black line, which is cleft at the wings ; abdomen ob-
scure luteous, segment 2 with a spot each side before the apex,
the apex of 3 — 6, and 7 entirely black, the following ones blue
( J1) or luteous ; segments 2 — 7 each side with a black streak, the
following ones blue (9); superior appendages obtuse, excised at
the apex ; the inferior ones broad, sub-bifid at the apex, the supe-
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rior branch conical, recurved ; tenth segment of the female almost
entirely cleft; the appendages short, luteous ; no ventral spine;
wings hyaline, pterostigtna rhornboidal, fuscous; fourteen postcu-
bital cross nervules.
Length 36 millim. Alar expanse 44 millim.
Hob, Tampico, Mexico (Saussure).
40. A. sedulum!
Agrion sedulum Hagen 1
Black ; head blue above ; posterior margin of the prothorax
sub-rect; dorsum of the thorax black, each side a blue stripe;
sides blue, superiorly with a black fascia, which is biserrated below,
and a black line upon the middle ; feet pale, femora exteriorly and
the tibiae within black ; abdomen black, segments 2 to 7 with a
dorsal blue spot at base, the following ones entirely blue ; append-
ages black, short, superior ones cylindrical, straight, obtuse, with
an ante-apical tooth beneath ; inferior ones longer, bifid, the
branches divaricated, recurved beneath ; margin of the tenth seg-
ment elevated in the middle, excised ; wings hyaline, pterostigraa
rhomboidal, brownish-black. <g . Thirteen postcubital cross-ner-
vules.
Length 34 millim. Alar expanse 38 millim.
Hab. Berkeley Springs, Virginia (Osten Sacken) ; Pecos River,
Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
The colors of the living insect were communicated to me by
Baron Osteu Sacken.
41. A. moestum!
Agrion moestum Hagen !
Fuscous ; head blue in front ; posterior margin of the prothorax
subrect ; dorsum of the thorax fuscous, each side with a broad
blue stripe (?) ; sides brassy-fuscous, with an obscure blue middle
stripe (?) ; feet luteous, femora exteriorly and tibia? interiorly
brassy-fuscous ; abdomen brassy-fuscous, segments 3 — 7 with a
basal blue lunule ; segment 10 margin excised in the middle;
appendages extremely short, the superior ones obtuse, incurved at
the apex, the inferior ones broad, truncated at the apex, hardly
sinuated.
9 Pale green ; head with a post-occipital fuscous streak ; pos-
terior margin of the prothorax subrect, each side with a brassy-
AGRION. 95
fuscous point ; the process upon the thorax, near each side, lami-
nated, oblong, short, rounded; thorax pale green, a dorsal, fuscous,
middle line; feet pale green, the femora sublineated with fuscous;
abdomen pale green, segments 3 — 7 each side, with a lateral fus-
cous streak; appendages short, pale; the wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma rhomboidal, black (J1), or luteous (?). Fifteen postcubi-
tal cross-nervules.
Length 43 — 45 millim. Alar expanse 50 — 56 millim.
Hal. Pecos River, Western Texas, July (Capt. Pope).
42. A. lugens!
Agrion luyens Hagen !
Luteous ; head above with an arcuated, angulose line, and a
postoccipital fascia blackish-brown ; posterior margin of the pro-
thorax subrotund, each side with an arcuated black spot ; process
of the thorax near each side, laminated, small, narrow, curved out-
wards ; thorax luteous, a dorsal middle streak and two narrow
stripes each side, fuscous ; sides luteous, above with a broadly
divided stripe, upon the middle at the wings an abrupt streak, and
a line beneath black ; feet luteous, femora exteriorly and tiba3
interiorly subfuscous; abdomen thick, luteous, a broad stripe each
side, confluent together at the apices of the segments, blackish-
brown, the last segment cleft ; appendages short, luteous ; wings
hyaline, pterostigma larger, rhomboidal, fuscous, luteous in the
middle; sixteen postcubital cross-nervules. (9.)
Length 50 millim. Alar expanse 67 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Muhlenpford; Berlin Museum).
It belongs to the genus HYPONEURA Selys, which is distin-
guished by the postcostal space being multi-areolate.
»
43. A. lacrimans !
Agrion lacrimans Hagen 1
Luteous ; head luteous, above with spots in the middle, and a
postoccipital streak black ; posterior margin of the prothorax
short, broadly bi-emarginated, and with a geminate black spot ;
laminated process near each side of the thorax broadened at the
apex and curved inwards ; dorsura of the thorax luteous, a black
stripe on the middle ; sides luteous, a humeral line dilated ante-
riorly, and a middle line black ; feet luteous, exteriorly and tarsi
brownish-black ; abdomen luteous, a broad, black stripe each side,
96 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
confluent together at the apices of the segments (apex destroyed);
wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, luteo-fuscous ; sixteen post-
cubital cross-nervules. (9.)
Length about 45 millim. Alar expanse 56 millim.
Hab. Cordova, Mexico (Saussure).
44. A. putridum !
Agrion putridum Hagen !
Fuscous ; head fuscous, in front luteous ; posterior margin of
the prothorax subrect ; dorsum of the thorax luteous, a fuscous
stripe upon the middle; sides luteous; a stripe superiorly, which
is excised at the wings, and a line upon the middle blackish-brown;
feet luteous, femora exteriorly and tibia? interiorly fuscous ; abdo-
men black, segments 3 — 7 each side with a pale basal luuule ; head,
thorax, and apex of the abdomen pruinose ; margin of the tenth
segment excised in the middle ; appendages short, superior ones
obtuse, an ante-apical tooth beneath, the inferior appendages
broad, truncated at the apex. 9 pale green ; head with a post-
occipital black streak; posterior margin of the prothorax straight,
each side with a black spot ; laminated process near each side of
the thorax small, straight, rounded ; dorsum of the thorax green,
a black line upon the middle ; sides green, a black line in the
middle; feet paler; abdomen green, each side with an interrupted
black line; apex of the tenth segment excised; appendages short;
wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal, black (J1), or luteous (9);
fourteen postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 48 millim.
Hab. Wisconsin River (Kennicott); Berkeley Springs, Virginia
(Osten Sackeu); Maryland (Uhler).
45. A. cupreum !
Agrion cupreum Hagen !
Coppery-purple; head cupreous ; posterior margin of the pro-
thorax rounded ; dorsum of the thorax cupreous, the middle carina
black; sides pale, above coppery; feet black, tibia? pale exteriorly;
abdomen black, segment 2 fusco-aeneous, 4 — 8 with a basal blue
annulus, 9 — 10 entirely blue; margin of 10 excised, bituberculated
beneath ; appendages black, the superior ones flat, subelongated,
triangular, biiid at the apex, the interior branch subiucurved ; the
inferior ones longer, the apex broader, excised. The eighth seg-
AGRION. 97
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ment is sometimes all blue g . Specimens from Venezuela are
smaller, but hardly distinct ; their females have the head marked
each side with a luteous, occipital point ; hind margin of the pro-
thorax slightly sinuated ; laminated process near each side of the
thorax short, curved inwards ; dorsum of the thorax luteous, a
cupreous stripe upon the middle ; sides yellowish-green, with a
brassy stripe above ; abdomen yellowish-green, each side with an
interrupted, black stripe ; wings hyaline, pterostigma rhomboidal,
black (J1), or luteous (9); fifteen postcubital cross-nervules.
Length 40 — 33 millim. Alar expanse 48 — 40 millim.
Hob. Cordova, Mexico (Saussure); Venezuela (Appuu).
46. A. aspersum!
Agrion aspersum Hagen !
Black, varied with blue ; head black, in front and an occipital
point each side blue ; posterior margin of the prothorax sub-
excised each side ; dorsum of the thorax black, each side with a
broad blue stripe ; sides blue ; feet pale blue, femora exteriorly,
tibia? interiorly and tarsi almost entirely black ; abdomen black,
the sides blue ; segment 1 blue, with a quadrangular, basal, black
spot ; 2 blue, with an apical, pyriform, black spot ; 3 blue, with a
large, apical, reversed hastiform, black spot ; the apical half of 7,
the whole of 8 and 9, and 10 with a large ovate spot each side
blue; margin of the tenth segment subexcised; appendages black,
superior ones long, straight, cylindrical, the apex subincurved,
with a basal process beneath, which is large, laminated ; the infe-
rior appendages are short, trigonal, the apex acute, curved in-
wards ; wings hyaline, pterostigma small, rhomboidal, black ;
twelve postcubital cross-nervules. (J*.)
Length 35 — 30 millim. Alar expanse 40 — 36 millim.
ffab. New York ; Bergen Hill, New Jersey (Guex) ; Chicago
(Osten Sacken).
47. A. fumipenne !
Agrion fumipenne Burm.! Handb. II, 819, 7. — Argia obscura Rambur,
Neuropt. 256, 3.
Fusco-aeneous ; head in front, and an occipital spot each side
blue(?); posterior margin of the prothorax rounded, each side sub-
truncated; dorsum of the thorax blue(?), a narrow, fusco-aeneous
stripe upon the middle; sides blue(?) above fusco-aeneous, a black
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93 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
line in the middle ; femora within and tibioe without pale ; abdo-
men fusco-aeneous, margin of. the tenth segment excised, beneath
bituberculated; superior appendages short, obtuse, arcuated, infe-
rior ones broader, the apex sub-bifid; or (9) fuscous, the apex of
the segments black, a blue(?) annulus at their base; no ventral
spine ; wings fuscous, pterostigma rhoruboidal, fuscous ; sixteen
postcubital cross-uervules.
Length 36 millini. Alar expanse 38 — 45 millim.
Hab. Kentucky; Florida (Osteu Sacken).
Kirby, Fauna Bor. Amer. p. 252, describes Agrion puetta Linn,
as having been taken in North America, lat. 65° ; perhaps it is
another species which is inextricable. The varieties captured,
which he describes, are : —
Var. B. Sea-green ; dorsum of the thorax black, with a green
stripe each side ; abdomen black, the base green, inscribed with
black ; feet black, beneath pale green ; the pterostigma black, en-
vironed with pale. (Certainly a female.)
Var. C. Dorsum of the thorax black, each side with a whitish
stripe ; feet black j pterostigma black. (From the description of
Kirby.) f
Tribe II. AESCHNINA.
Wings unequal ; triangles of all the wings of the same form ;
genital organs of the male having the anterior Jiamule connate ;
the penis and vesicle conjoined; genital organs of the female vagi-
nated or exposed.
Sub-Fam. III. GOMPHINA.
Eyes distant or sub-distant ; head transverse ; wings unequal,
the posterior ones broader ; the triangle short ; genital organs of
the female exposed.
Division I. Labium entire.
GOMFHTJS LEACH.
Triangles of all the wings with no transverse veins.
Subgenus Erpetogomplms SELTS.
The abdomen blackish, with broad, hastiform, dorsal yellow
spots ; the feet short ; penis with no tooth beneath.
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1. G. compositus !
Erpetogomphus compositus Hag.! Monog. Gompli. 400, 16 bis ; pi. xx, fig.
2. Selys, Addit. Synops. 10, 21.
Pale yellow ; head pale, between the eyes black ; thorax pale,
dorsurn with two broad, approximated stripes, and another exter-
nal one each side, a little incurved, black ; the sides bright yellow,
each side with oblique, black lines; the space between the second
and third line pale; feet yellow, having a black line exteriorly, the
tarsi black ; abdomen black, the second segment at sides, and a
dorsal, elongated spot, segments 3 to 7 with a large, hastiform
spot, the eighth each side of base, and the following ones entirely,
pale yellow, appendages yellow ; vulvar scale short, divided ; wings
hyaline, subflavescent at base, pterostigma large, black. Female.
Thirteen antecubital cross-nervules. 8 — 9 postcubital cross-nerv-
nles.
Length 46 millim. Alar expanse 62 millim. Pterostigma 3£
millirn.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
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2. G. designatus !
Erpetogomplms designatus Hag.! Monog. Gompli. 401, 16 ter ; pi. xx, fig. 1.
Selys, Addit. Synops. 10, 26 bis.
Yellow ; head pale yellow ; thorax yellow, the dorsum with two
subcontiguous stripes, which are broader in front, and another
shorter, oblique one each side, fuscous ; the sides pale, with three
very narrow fuscous lines, the middle one interrupted ; feet yellow,
femora and tibise with an external streak, and the tarsi entirely
black; abdomen cylindrical, slender, the dorsum blackish-fuscous,
segments 2 to 7 with a large, dorsal, hastiform yellow spot; in the
females the sides are interrupted with pale ; the males have the
four last segments subdilated, yellow, obsoletely varied with fus-
cous; the superior appendages contiguous, straight, the apical half
narrowed, acute, the inferior one narrow, bifid, hardly shorter than
the superiors, the apex recurved, obtuse ; vulvar lamina with a
small triangle each side; wings hyaline, their extreme bases flaves-
cent, pterostigma large, dilated, black ; thirteen antecubitals ; 8 —
10 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 49 — 51 millim. Alar expanse 66 — 68 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 J millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
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3. G. boa.
Erpetogomplms boa Selys ! Addit. Synops. 11, 21 quart.
Yellow ; head yellow ; thorax yellow, varied with obscure fus-
cous ; femora yellow, externally with a fuscous fascia, tibire fus-
cous, or yellow, with the outside black, the four anterior tarsi
brownish-black; abdomen yellowish; superior appendages inflated
at base, an obtuse tooth above; their apex curved inwards, obtuse,
villous; the inferior one bifid, shorter; the vulvar lamina excised;
wings hyaline ; pterostigma pale fuscous. (From the description
of De Selys Longchamps.) Male.
Length 47 millim. Alar expanse 69 — 72 millim.
Hob. Vera Cruz, Mexico.
4. G. cophias!
Erpetogomphus cophias Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 72, 17 ; pi. iv, fig. '6.
Selys, Addit. Synops. 11, 21 quint.
Yellow; head yellow, between the ocelli fuscous; thorax yellow,
dorsuni having an obsolete, humeral, rufous stripe ; abdomen yel-
low, segments 4 — 9 each side blackish-fuscous ; segment 10 with
two basal, black spots ; femora yellow, with a black fascia exter-
nally, tibise and tarsi black ; superior appendages inflated at base,
with a basal tooth beneath; at the apex they are obtuse; the infe-
rior one bifid, shorter ; wings hyaline, pterostigma pale fuscous ;
vulvar lamina short, each side orbicular.
Length 47 millim. Alar expanse 64 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Mexico; Trojes del Oro (Saussure).
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5. G. elaps!
Erpetogomphus elaps Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 70, 16 ; pi. iv, fig. 4. Selys,
Addit. Synops. 12, 21 sext.
Yellow; head yellow, between the ocelli fuscous; thorax yellow,
dorsum each side with an obsolete, humeral, rufous vestige ; femora
yellow, externally with a black fascia, tibiffi and tarsi black ; abdo-
men slender, yellowish, before the apex dilated, the second segment
each side, lineated with black, and with a trilobed, dorsal, yellow
spot ; segments 3 — 6 blackish, with a yellow, basal ring, or yellow
with an apical black ring (teneral), segment 7 yellow, or sometimes
fuscous behind, segments 8 — 10 fuscous, obscurely varied with
black ; superior appendages contiguous, not inflated at base, the
GOMPHUS. 101
apex obtuse, subincurvecl ; the inferior one bifid, one-half shorter
than the superior ; wings hyaline, pterostigraa fuscous or fulvous.
Male.
Twelve antecubitals ; 8 — 9 postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 41 millirn. Alar expanse 54 millim. Pterostigma 3
raillim.
Hab. Atlihuazan, Mexico (Saussure).
6. G. crotalinus !
Erpetogomphus crotalinus Hag.! Monog. Gomph. 72, 18 ; pi. iv, fig. 5.
Selys, Synops. 21, 21. — Ophiogomphus menetriesii Selys! Synops. 20,
20.
Greenish-yellow; head and thorax greenish-yellow; feet yellow,
exteriorly lineated with black, tarsi black; abdomen slender, be-
fore the apex dilated, greenish-yellow, with a black stripe each
side ; superior appendages straight, contiguous, inflated at base,
the apex acute ; the inferior one bifid, the apex incurved, acute ;
vulvar lamina excised ; wings hyaline, pterostigma yellow, sur-
rounded by black nervures.
Eleven antecubitals; 8 — 9 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 45 — 49 millim. Alar expanse 66 millim. Pterostigma
3j millirn.
Hab. Mexico; Brazil.
G. menetriesii, from Brazil, very likely, does not differ from this
species ; but the typical specimen being destroyed, other speci-
mens are to be observed.
Subgenus Oplliogomphus SELYS.
7. G. colubrinus !
Ophiogomphus colubrinus Selys! Monog. Gomplu 76, 19; pi. v, fig. 1.
Selys, Synops. 21, 22.
Greenish-yellow ; head yellow, in front with four black lines,
labium black in the middle ; thorax greenish-yellow, a middle
stripe, and another each side, lateral, narrow, fuscous; sides, each
with three narrow black lines ; feet yellow, the posterior femora
exteriorly fuscous, tibias black with an external yellow line ; abdo-
men cylindrical, before the apex dilated, the dorsum black, seg-
ments 3 — 7 with a basal yellow stripe, the rest with a yellow spot ;
superior appendages yellow, short, trigonal, subincurved ; the in-
102 NEUROPTER A OP NORTH AMERICA.
ferior one broad, bifid, hardly shorter ; wings hyaline, pterostigma
pale fuscous. Male.
Fourteen antecubitals ; 11 — 12 postcubitals; two discoidal are-
olets.
Length 50 millim. Alar expanse 64 rnillim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Hudson's Bay.
This species is very much like G. serpentinus Charp., of Europe.
Subgenus Gomplms.
8. G. spinosus!
Gomphus spinosus Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 120, 35 ; pi. vii, fig. 2. Selys,
Synops. 40, 51.
Fuscous, spotted with yellow ; head yellow, with a black band
before the eyes; clorsum of the thorax fuscous, a medial stripe
dilated in front, and a subcontiguous streak each side, yellow; sides
yellowish; feet black, the anterior femora beneath yellowish ; pos-
terior femora extremely long, spinous ; abdomen long, yellow, a
broad, brownish-black stripe upon each side ; superior appendages
divaricated, trigonal, the apex acute, recurved, upon the under
side on the middle, a blunt tooth ; the inferior one broad, forked ;
the vulvar lamina narrow, bifid; wings hyaline, pterostigma large,
yellow; 13 — 14 antecubitals ; eleven postcubitals; two discoidal
areolets.
Length 54 — 61 millim. Alar expanse 76 — 80 millim. Ptero-
stigma 4 millim.
Hob. Georgia.
9. G. armatus.
Gomphus armatus Selys ! Monog. Gomph.. 122, 36. Selys, Synops. 40, 52.
Fuscous, spotted with yellow ; head yellow, front with a trans-
verse black line inferiorly ; thorax fuscous, a middle stripe, dilated
in front, and a humeral and antehumeral streak, yellow ; sides yel-
low, with two fuscous stripes; feet black, anterior femora yellowish
beneath; posterior femora extremely long, spinous ; abdomen long,
the apex very much dilated, yellow, a broad brownish-black stripe
each side ; appendages like those of G. spinosus, pale fuscous ;
wings hyaline; pterostigma large, yellow. Male.
Fifteen antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
GOMPHUS. 103
Length 54 millim. Alar expanse 76 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob. North America (British Museum).
10. G. spoliatus!
Gomphus spoliatus Hag.! Monog. Gompli. 409, 36 bis ; pi. xxi, fig. 1. Se-
lys, Addit. Synops. 17, 32 bis.
Yellow, spotted with fuscous ; head yellow ; thorax yellow, dor-
sum with two medial, contiguous, anteriorly broadened stripes, and
two oblique ones each side, fuscous; sides yellow, with fuscous,
oblique lines each side; feet black, the anterior and posterior pairs
of femora yellowish beneath ; the posterior femora extremely long,
spinous ; abdomen long, slender, the apex very much dilated, yel-
low, the second segment each side, with a large angular spot, seg-
ments 3 — 6 each side, with a point and apical triangular spot,
black ; appendages like those of G. spinosus, yellow ; wings hya-
line, pterostigma large, yellow. Male.
13 — 14 antecubitals; 8 — 10 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 60 millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. Pterostigma 3*
millim.
Hal). Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
Is this not the teneral stage of G. armatus?
11. G. dilatatus!
Gomphus dilatatus Ramb.! Neuropt. 155, 2. Selys! Monogr. Gompli. 123,
37; pi. vii, fig. 3. Selys, Synops. 28, 31.
Black, spotted with yellow ; head yellow, with two stripes in
front and a third before the eyes, black ; dorsum of the thorax
black, with two yellow stripes each side ; sides yellow, each side
with two oblique black streaks ; feet black, anterior femora beneath
yellowish ; the posterior femora longer ; abdomen slender, long,
the apex strongly dilated, excavated, black, segments 1 — 7 with a
dorsal middle fascia, segments 1 — 3 each side with a lateral fascia
and segment 9 at the. sides, yellow ; appendages black, superior
ones short, cylindrical, incurved, the apex beneath, obliquely trunc-
ated, acute ; the inferior one broad, bifid ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma moderate, black ; the membranule broader, cinereous ;
vulvar lamina long, excised, bifurcated ; thirteen antecubitals ;
fourteen postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
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Length 65 — T2 millim. Alar expanse 84 millim. Pterostigma
3i— 4 millim.
Hub, Georgia (Abbot).
12. G. externus!
Gomphus externus Hag.! Monog. Gomph. 411, 37 bis; pi. xxi, fig. 2. Se-
lys, Addit. Synops. 14, 31 bis.
Yellow, spotted with, black ; head yellow, a narrow black band
before the eyes; thorax yellow, dorsum with a straight middle
stripe, and two each side, incurved, black ; sides yellow, each side
with two oblique black stripes ; feet black, anterior femora upon
the base beneath, yellowish, tibiae at the base exteriorly, yellow ;
abdomen long, the apex dilated ; yellow, each side with a broad
black stripe, which is conjoined upon the dorsum at the apex of
the segments ; appendages fuscous, superior ones short, trigonal,
acute ; the inferior one broader, bifurcated; vulvar lamina narrow,
the apex bifid ; wings hyaline, pterostigma narrow, fuscous ; il —
12 antecubitals ; 9 — 10 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 52 millim. Alar expanse 66 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hab. Pecos River, "Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
13. G. adelphus.
Gomphus adelphus Selys! Monog. Gompli. 413, 38 bis. Selys, Addit. Sy-
nops. 15, 34 ter.
Yellow, spotted with black ; head yellow, in front with two con-
fluent black bauds ; thorax yellow, dorsum each side, with three
black stripes, the intermediate ones contiguous ; feet black ; apex
of the abdomen dilated, dorsum black, segments 1 — 7 with a rnacu-
lose, median, yellow stripe ; appendages black, superior ones
incurved at the apex, acute ; wings hyaline, pterostigma small,
fuscous. Male. (From the description of De Selys Longchamps.)
Length 48 naillim. Alar expanse 54 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hab. New York (Asa Fitch).
14. G. fraternus !
jfischna fraterna Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 16, 9. — Gomphus fra-
ternus Selys ! Monog. Gompli. 125, 138 ; pi. vii, fig. 4. Selys, Sy-
nops. 28, 32.
Yellow, spotted with black; head yellow, thorax yellow, dorsum
GOMPHUS. 105
with a stripe upon the middle, and one each side, laterally, broad,
black, divided with yellow ; feet black, the anterior and posterior
femora partly yellowish ; abdomen dilated at the apex, black, a
dorsal line broader at the base, yellow, at the apex wanting ; a
basal, lateral yellow stripe, and the eighth and ninth segments, each
side, yellow; appendages black ; vulvar lamina narrow, two-parted ;
wing's hyaline, pterostigma yellow; twelve antecubitals ; 10 — 11
postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 48 millim. Alar expanse 64 millini. Pterostigma 3
milliin.
Hab. New York (Schaum); Virginia (Osten Sackeu).
15. G. villosipes !
Gomphus villosipes Selys ! Synops. 34,41. — Gomphus pallidus Selys! Mo-
nog, Gompli. 145, 47; pi. viii, fig. 6. (partly.)
Greenish-yellow, spotted with black ; head yellowish, with a
black stripe in front ; thorax greenish-yellow, dorsuni with a stripe
upon the middle, and a lateral, broad one, each side, divided with
yellow, black ; sides with an interrupted, black line ; feet black,
anterior femora beneath yellowish, tibia with an external yellow
line ; apex of the abdomen a little dilated, dorsum of the abdomen
black, with a rnaculose, yellow stripe upon the middle ; segments
8 and 9 black, 10 yellow; appendages yellowish, black at apex,
the superior ones divaricated, deplanated, the apex acute and
curved inwards ; the inferior one broadly forked, the apex recurved ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma yellow. Male.
Eleven antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 47 millim. Alar expanse 59 millim. Pterostigma ST?
millim.
Hub. North America (Vienna Museum).
16. G. pallidus !
Gomphus pallidus Ramb.! Neuropt. 163, 12. Selys ! Monog. Goraph. 145,
47; pi. viii, fig. 6 (Partly). Selys ! Synops. 33, 40.
Testaceous; head pale; thorax villous, olivaceous, dorsum each
side, with an obsolete rufous line ; feet testaceous, femora above
and tibise beneath blackish-brown ; abdomen long, the ninth seg-
ment longer than the others; apex hardly dilated, testaceous, each
side with a broader subfuscous stripe, which is wanting at the
106 NEUROPTER A OF NORTH AMERICA.
apex ; appendages pale; vulvar lamina triangular, the apex bifid ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma narrow, longer, yellow. Female.
Twelve antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 58 millim. Alar expanse 76 rnillim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
17. G. pilipes !
Gomphus pilipes Selys ! Monog. Gompli. 148, 48 ; pi. viii, fig. 7. Selys !
Addit. Synops. 15, 40 bis.
Testaceous ; head pale ; thorax villous, olivaceous, dorsum each
side, with an obsolete fuscous line ; feet testaceous, femora villous,
above, and tibiae beneath, blackish-brown ; abdomen long, the
ninth segment longer than the others, the apex hardly dilated ;
testaceous, the middle segments at the apex, and the basal seg-
ments each side, with an obsolete fuscous fascia ; appendages pale,
the superior ones trigonal, the apex acute, curved inwards ; the
inferior ones broadly bifurcated ; vulvar lamina oblong, bifid at
the apex ; wings hyaline, pterostigma narrow, yellow ; twelve an-
tecubitals ; eleven postcubitals ; 3 discoidal areolets.
Length 53 millim. Alar expanse 68 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob. New Orleans ; Georgia.
18. G. lividus !
Gomphus lividus Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 150, 49 ; pi. ix, fig. 1. Selys !
Synops. 34, 42.— Gomphus sordidus Hag.! Selys, Synops. 35, 43.
Olivaceous, spotted with fuscous ; head pale yellow ; thorax oli-
vaceous, the dorsum with a stripe upon the middle, each side a
broad, fuscous one, divided with olive ; the sides with two broad,
fuscous lines ; feet testaceous, tibioe beneath and the tarsi, black ;
abdomen equal, the base dilated, fuscous, a dorsal, medial, yellow
line, interrupted upon the segments, and absent from the apex ;
appendages fuscous, the superior ones trigonal, narrower at the
apex, acute, somewhat dilated in the middle; the inferior one
broadly bifid ; wings hyaline, pterostigma small, yellow ; twelve
antecubitals ; twelve postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 51 millim. Alar expanse 66 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
ffab. S. Carolina (Zimmerman); Washington (Osten Sacken).
GOMPHUS. 10T
A male from Washington has the appendages a little different ;
the specimen, however, is a very freshly excluded one ; perhaps it
belongs to this same species.
19. G. spicatus!
Gomphus spicatus Hag.! Monog. Gomph. 153, 50, and 415, 50 ; pi. is, fig.
2. Selys ! Synops. 35, 44.
Fuscous, spotted with luteous; head pale yellow; thorax clothed
with fuscous hairs, dorsum with a stripe each side and the sides
with two stripes, luteous ; femora luteous, above fuscous ; tibiae
blackish-fuscous, exteriorly yellowish, tarsi black ; abdomen equal,
inflated at base, fuscous, the dorsum with an interrupted, yellow
line, the base each side with a yellow stripe ; appendages fuscous,
the superior ones trigonal, acute at the apex, with an external,
basal tooth ; the inferior one broader, divaricated, broadly bifid ;
the vulvar lamina triangular, bifid, subdivaricated ; wings hyaline,
pterostigma yellow ; twelve antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; two
discoidal areolets.
Length 49 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. New York (Schaum) ; Canada.
20. G-. militaris !
Gomphus militaris Hag.! Monog. Gomph. 416, 51 bis; pi. xxi, fig. 3.
Selys ! Addit. Synops. 16, 44 bis.
Yellow, spotted with blackish-brown ; head pale yellow ; thorax
yellow, dorsum each side with a lateral stripe, which is broad,
blackish-fuscous, divided with yellow ; the sides with two brown-
ish-black lines ; feet yellowish, the femora bilineated with black,
the tibiae within, and the tarsi black ; abdomen slender, yellow,
dilated at the apex, an interrupted brownish-black line each side,
which is absent at the apex ; appendages yellow, the superior ones
trigonal, the apex curved inwards, acute, with an external obtuser
tooth ; the inferior appendage broadly bifid ; vulvar lamina ex-
tremely short, excised ; wings hyaline, pterostigma yellow ; 12 — 14
antecubitals ; eleven postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 47 — 50 millhn. Alar expanse 64 millim. Pterostigma
4 millim.
Hal. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
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21. G. intricatus !
Gomphus intricatus Hag.! Monog. Gomph. 418, 51 ter; pi. xxi, fig. 3.
Selys ! Addit. Synops. 16, 44 ter.
Yellow, spotted with brownish-black; head pale yellow; thorax
yellow, dorsuin with a medial fascia, divided with yellow, each side
an incurved fascia, and a humeral one, brownish-black ; femora
yellow, with a fuscous stripe above, tibia? black, exteriorly yellow,
tarsi black ; abdomen slender, broader at the apex ; yellow, each
side with an interrupted, fuscous stripe, which is absent at the
apex ; appendages yellow, the superior ones divaricated, the apex,
outwardly, truncated, acute, the inferior appendage broadly bifid ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma yellow. Male.
Twelve antecubitals ; eight postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 45 millini. Alar expanse 60 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
22. G. minutus I
Gomphus minutus Ramb.! Neuropt. 161, 9. Selys I Monog. Gomph. 155,
51 ; pi. is, fig. 3. Selys ! Synops. 36, 45.
Yellow, spotted with black ; head yellow ; thorax yellow, dor-
sum with a medial fascia, and a broad lateral one each side, black,
divided with yellow, the sides with two, almost contiguous, oblique,
black stripes ; feet yellow, femora exteriorly, the tibia? interiorly
and the tarsi, black ; the abdomen somewhat broader at the apex,
yellow, each side with a broad black stripe ; appendages yellowish,
fuscous at the apex, the superior ones trigonal, with a long, basal
tooth beneath ; the inferior one broadly bifid ; vulvar lamina very
short, excised ; wings hyaline, pterostigma yellow ; twelve ante-
cubitals ; eleven postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 49 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hub. Georgia (Abbot).
23. G. exilis !
Gomphus exilis Selys! Monog. Gomph. 156, 52. Selys! Synops. 36, 46.
Yellow, marked with blackish-fuscous ; head yellow ; thorax
yellow, dorsuin with a broad middle stripe and each side of it a
broad lateral one, each divided with yellow, fuscous ; sides yellow,
with a broad, oblique, fuscous fascia ; feet yellow, femora exte-
-
GOMrnus. 109
riorly, tibiae interiorly, and the tarsi, brownish-black ; abdomen
with the apex a little dilated, the dorsum blackish-fuscous, with a
medial yellow stripe; appendages yellow, superior ones trigonal,
dilated and toothed beneath ; the inferior one broadly bifid ; vulvar
lamina oval, short, bifid ; wings hyaline, pterostigma yellow ; nine
antecubitals ; eight postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 42 millim. Alar expanse 50 millim. Pterostigma 2£
millim.
Hub. Maryland (Uhler); Massachusetts (Scudder).
\
24. G. parvulua.
Gomphus parvulus Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 157, 53 ; pi. xxii, fig. 1. Se-
lys ! Synops. 37, 47.
Black ; head black, a fascia in front, and two spots, yellow ;
thorax black, dorsum each side, with a small, yellow line ; sides
yellow, with two contiguous stripes and a third posteriorly, black;
feet black ; abdomen equal, black, the dorsum with a basal, ma-
culose, yellow stripe ; appendages fuscous, superior ones nearly
straight, cylindrical, the apex narrower, acute, beneath with a
basal tooth; the inferior one-half shorter, broadly bifid; wings
hyaline, pterostigma blackish-fuscous. (Male.)
Thirteen antecubitals ; eleven postcubitals ; two discoidal areo-
lets.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 54 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. No-va Scotia (British Museum).
25. G. plagiatus.
Gomphus plagiatus Selys ! Monog. Gompli. 159, 54. Selys ! Synops. 38, 48.
Yellow, spotted with black ; head yellow ; dorsum of the thorax
black, each side with a yellow stripe ; sides yellow, with two black
lines ; femora yellow, the basal half exteriorly black, tibiae and
tarsi black; abdomen long, the apex subdilated, luteous ; segments
7 — 9 yellow, with a red apex ; appendages yellow, like those of
G. villosipes; wings hyaline, pterostigma yellow. (From the de-
scription of De Selys Longchamps.)
Fourteen antecubitals; eight postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 54 millim. Alar expanse 64 millim. Pterostigma ?
millim.
Hob. North America (British Museum).
110 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
26. G. notatus.
Gomphus notatus Ramb.! Neuropt. 162, 10. Selys ! Monog. Gompli. 159,
55. Selys 1 Synops. 38, 49. — Gomphus elongatus Selys ! Synops. 39,
50(9).
Greenish-yellow, spotted with fuscous; head yellowish ; dorsum
of the thorax fuscous, each side with narrow green stripes ; sides
greenish-yellow, with two fuscous stripes ; feet yellow, femora
above, fuscous, tibia? and tarsi, black ; abdomen long, cylindrical,
fuscous ; vulvar lamina short ; wings hyaline, pterostigma long,
rufous. (From the description of De Selys Longcharnps.)
13 — 15 antecubitals; eleven postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 64 millim. Alar expanse 68 — 7,8 millim. Fterostigma
5 millim.
Hob. North America (British Museum).
Subgemis Neogomplms SELYS.
27. G-. specularis!
Neogomphus? spccularis Hag.! Selys, Addit. Synops. 18, 64 bis.
Yellow, spotted with black ; head yellow in front, above black,
in the middle yellow ; thorax yellow, dorsum each side, with a
broad, black stripe ; sides yellow ; feet black ; abdomen equal,
black, the dorsum with a narrow yellow stripe, which is almost
absent upon the apex, segments 8 and 9 with a yellow spot each
side ; appendages yellow ; vulvar lamina large, bifid, bi-ovate ;
wings hyaline, pterostigma black. Female.
10 — 11 antecubitals; 10 — 11 postcubitals ; two discoidal areo-
lets.
Length 45 millim. Alar expanse 58 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Ft. Tejon, California (John Xantus).
PROGOMPHUS SELYS.
Triangles with transverse veins ; the superior side longer than
the interior one ; the feet short.
1. P. obscurus !
Diastatomma obscurum Ramb.! Neuropt. 170, 5. — Progomphus obscurus Se-
lys ! Monog. Goraph. 201, 70. Selys ! Synops. 53, 69.
Fuscous, spotted with yellow; head yellow, fuscous above; dor-
GOMPHOIDES. Ill
sum of the thorax fusco-rufous, each side with, a yellow stripe ;
sides fuscous, with three yellow stripes ; feet fusco-rufous, femora
luteous beneath, tibiae within and the tarsi black ; abdomen ?
; wings hyaline, with a fulvous, narrow, basal spot, ptero-
stigma large, rufo-fuscous. (From the description of De Selys
Longchamps.)
15 — 16 antecubitals; 9 — 11 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 53 ? rnillim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 5
rnillim.
Hob. North America (Vienna Museum ; collection of De Selys
Longchamps).
2. P. zonatus !
Progomphus zonatus Hag.! Monog. Gomph. 203, 71 ; pi. xi, fig. 3. Selys!
Synops. 53, 70.
Black, spotted with yellow ; head yellow in front, above black ;
thorax black, dorsum each side with two stripes, and sides with
three broader stripes, yellow; feet black ; abdomen long, cylindri-
cal, the base subinflated, black, the dorsum with a basal yellow
line, the base of segment 7 yellow ; appendages yellow ; vulvar
lamina very short, emarginated ; wings fumose, pterostigrna large,
black. Female.
17 — 18 antecubitals ; 9 — 11 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 52 millim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hah. Mexico (collection of Dr. Hagen).
GOMPHOIDES BELTS.
Triangles with transverse veins ; the superior side shorter than
the others ; feet short.
1. G. stigmata !
^Eschna stigmata ? Say, Journ. Acacl. Philad. VIII, 17, 10. — Progomphus
stigmatus Selys! Monog. Gomph. 205, 72. Selys, Synops. 53, 71. —
Gomphoides stigmata Hag.! Monog. Gomph. 423, 72; pi. xxi, fig. 5.
Yellow, marked with black ; head yellow, above fuscous, the
vertex yellow ; thorax yellow, dorsum with a stripe in the middle,
two each side, and sides with two oblique stripes, black ; feet black,
femora yellow, bilineated with black at the apex ; abdomen slender,
inflated at the base, the apex dilated, yellow, segments 2 to 7 each
112 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
side with a black apical fascia, which meet at the tip ; segments 8
and'9 fuscous in the middle ; appendages yellow, superior ones
cylindrical, incurved at the apes, and with an ante-apical tooth
above ; the inferior appendage short, orbicular, bifid ; vulvar la-
mina short, excised ; wings hyaline, pterostigma large, black ;
17 — 19 antecubitals ; 10 — 12 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 65 millini. Alar expanse 84 niillim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
2. G. suasa.
Gomphoides suasa Selys, Addit. Synops. 19, 72 bis.
Fusco-olivaceous ; thorax fusco-oiivaceous, a dorsal stripe each
side, another humeral, and the sides with three bands, yellowish ;
feet grayish-fuscous, femora paler ; abdomen fusco-olivaceous, an
interrupted dorsal line, spots at the sides (those of the seventh
segment larger) yellow ; the eighth and ninth segments not dilated ;
appendages pale ; wings hyaline, pterostigma fuscous. <? . (From
the description of De Selys Longchamps.)
antecubitals ; postcubitals ; discoidal areolets.
Length 58 niillim. Alar expanse 86 millim. Pterostigma 5
millini.
Hob. Yera Cruz, Mexico (Salle).
3. G. perfida !
Gomphoides perfida Hagen.
Black, spotted with luteous; head luteo-fuscous; thorax luteous,
dorsuin with a middle fascia, and each side a lateral one, broad,
black, divided with luteous ; sides black, with three oblique, luteous
stripes; feet black, base of the femora luteo-fuscous; abdomen
slender, the base broader (the apex destroyed) ; black, the dorsum
of the first and second segments, and sides, obsoletely luteous ;
wings fumose, pterostigma large, black. (Male.)
23 — 24 antecubitals ; fifteen postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 60 ? millim. Alar expanse 82 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Nab. Tampico, Mexico (Saussnre).
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4. G. elongata.
Cyclophylla elongata Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 224, 84; pi. xii, fig. 5.
Selys ! Addit. Synops. 20, 79 ter.
Black, spotted with olive; head olivaceous in front, labrum mar-
gined with black, and with a black fascia upon the middle; thorax
black, dorsuui each side with two narrow stripes, and each side
with three stripes, olivaceous; feet black, anterior femora pale be-
neath ; abdomen long, slender, black, the base and apex inflated,
segments 3 — 7 with a basal, hastiform, yellow spot ; appendages
brownish-black, subcylindrical, forcipated, the apex subexcised,
the inferior appendage scarcely apparent ; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma large, rufo-fuscous. J\ Sixteen antecubitals; ten postcu-
bitals; two discoidal areolets. (From the description of De Selys
Longchamps.)
Length 62 milliin. Alar expanse 72 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hab. Mexico (Paris Museum).
5. G. protracta!
Cyclophylla protracta Hagen! Selys, Addit. Synops. 20, 79 ter.
Blackish-fuscous, spotted with yellow ; head luteous ; thorax
blackish-fuscous, dorsum with two stripes, and the sides with three
oblique ones, yellow ; feet brownish-black, femora luteous ; abdo-
men long, slender, inflated at base, fuscous or luteous, membranously
dilated at the apex, dorsum with an interrupted, yellow line, the
sides luteous ; appendages fuscous, subcylindrical, forcipated, sub-
excised at the apex, the inferior appendage absent ; vulvar lamina
very short, excised ; wings hyaline, pterostigma large, yellow.
Twenty-one antecubitals; ten postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 62 millim. Alar expanse 79 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hab. Matamoras, Mexico.
6. G. producta!
Aphylla producta Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 230, 83 ; pi. xii, fig. 6.
Selys ! Synops. 60, 81. Aphylla caraiba Selys ! Poey, Ins. Cuba,
456.
Brownish-black, spotted with yellow ; head yellow, banded trans-
versely with fuscous ; thorax brownish-black, dorsum each side with
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114 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
two stripes, conjoined at the wings, the external one narrower, and
the sides with three oblique ones, the middle one incomplete, yel-
low or green ; feet black, femora rufous, obscurer at the apex ;
abdomen long, slender, the base inflated, the apex somewhat
broader, brownish-black, the base with a yellow, dorsal line ;
appendages black, subcylindrical, forcipated, obtuse at the apex,
the inferior one almost absent ; ventral lamina narrow, bifid ; wings
hyaline, the pterostigrna large, yellow. 19 — 23 antecubitals ; 11
— 15 postcubitals ; 2 discoidal areolets.
Length 59 — 65 millim. Alar expanse 76 — 84 millim. Ptero-
stigma 5 millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey) ; British Guiana (Schomburgk) ; Bahia,
Brazil.
7. G. tenuis!
Aphylla tenuis Hagen! Selys, Addit. Synops. 21, 80 bis.
Luteous ; head luteo-fuscous ; dorsum of the thorax fuscous,
sides luteous ; feet black, femora luteous ; abdomen long, slender,
equal, subinflated at base, luteo-fuscous, the segments obscurer at
their apex ; appendages fuscous, subcylindrical, forcipated, the
apex acuter; the inferior appendage absent; wings hyaline, ptero-
stigma large, luteous. Male. 19 — 22 antecubitals ; 12 — 13 post-
cubitals ; 2 discoidal areolets.
Length 50 millim. Alar expanse 67 millim. Pterostigina 4
millira.
Hob. Choco, New Grenada (Schott).
The specimen is teneral, the colors hardly perfected, preserved
in spirits.
HAGENIUS SELYS.
Triangles with transverse veins ; the superior side longer than
the interior ; feet very long.
1. H. brevistylus !
Hagenius brevistylus Selys ! Monog. Gomph. 241, 86 ; pi. siii, fig. 2.
Selys ! Synops. 63, 84.
Black, spotted with yellow; head yellow in front, a black fascia
before the eyes, above black ; thorax black, dorsum each side with
CORDULEGA STER. 115
a stripe and line, and the sides with two broad oblique stripes, a
line between them, yellow, feet very long, black; abdomen long,
cylindrical, the clorsum black, with a stripe upon the middle, and
each side a ventral one, yellow; appendages short, yellow, the
superior ones stout, incurved at apex, bidentated beneath, the
inferior appendage quadrangular, broad, incurved at the apex ;
wings subfumose, pterostigma long, brownish-black. 16 — 19 ante-
cubitals ; 13 — 14 postcubitals ; 2 discoidal areolets.
Length 73 — 78 millini. Alar expanse 104 — 114 millim. Ptero-
stigma 6 millim.
Ifab. New York (Dr. Asa Fitch); Wisconsin (Kennicott);
Columbia.
Division II. Labium bifid.
CORDULEGASTER LEACH.
Eyes subcontiguous.
1. C. sayi.
Cordulegaster sayi Selys ! Monog. Gornph. 331, 109. Selys ! Synops. 85,
106.
Black, spotted with yellow ; head yellow, rhinarium black ; tho-
rax black, dorsurn with two stripes, sides each with two stripes and
an intermediate line, yellow; feet black; abdomen long, black,
aunulated with yellow ; appendages of the male black, superior
ones trigonal, divaricated, with a basal tooth beneath, the inferior
appendage quadrangular ; appendages of the female yellow ; vulvar
lamina elongated, bifid; wings hyaline, pterostigma long, yellow;
membranule whitish. 18 antecubitals ; 11 postcubitals; 2 disc-
oidal areolets.
Length 60 rnillim. Alar expanse 84 millim. Pterostigma 4^
millim.
Ifab. Georgia (British Museum).
It is similar to C. annulatus Charp., of Europe.
2. C. maculatus!
Cordulegaster maculatus Selys! Monog. Gomph. 337, 111. Selys ! Synops.
86, 108. Aeschna obliqua Say, var. A ? Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII.
16,8.
Brownish-black, hairy, spotted with yellow ; head yellow, with
116 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
a fuscous band in front ; thorax brownish-black, dorsum each side
with a cuneiform stripe, sides with two oblique stripes, yellow; feet
black, femora fuscous, the apex black; abdomen long, brownish-
black, segments 2 — 6 with a dorsal, yellow spot each side ; vulvar
lamina long, bifid, yellow, fuscous at the apex ; wings hyaline,
pterostigma yellow, membranule white. Female. 21 antecubitals;
15 postcubitals ; 2 discoidal areolets.
Length 75 millim. Alar expanse 93 millim. Pterostigma 4
rnillim.
Hob. Georgia; Maryland (Uhler) ; Connecticut (Xorton).
3. C. dorsalis!
Cordulegaster dorsalis Hagen ! Monog. Gompli. 347, 115. Selys ! Addit.
Synops. 28, 113 bis.
Fuscous, spotted with yellow; head yellow, with a fuscous band
in front ; thorax fuscous, dorsum each side with a stripe, sides with
two oblique ones, yellow; feet blackish-fuscous, femora luteous;
abdomen long, fuscous, segments 2 — 9 with a dorsal, bifid, yellow
spot ; vulvar lamina long, bifid, luteous ; wings hyaline, the
base subfulvous, pterostigma yellow, membranule white. Female.
Eighteen antecubitals ; twelve postcubitals ; two discoidal areo-
lets.
Length 80 millim. Alar expanse 100 millim. Pterostigma 4
inillim.
Hob. Sitka, Russian America.
4. C. obliquus!
sEschna obliqua Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 15, 8. — Cordulegaster ob-
liquus Selys! Monog. Gompli. 349, 116; pi. xviii, fig. 5. Selys!
Synops. 89,113. — Cordulegaster fasciatus Rarnb. ! Neuropt. 178, 1.
Black, spotted with greenish-yellow ; head yellow, in front with
two black bands, occiput tuberculoid; thorax black, with gray
hairs, dorsum with a cuneiform stripe each side, and sides with two
oblique stripes, yellow; feet black, base of the femora fuscous;
abdomen long, equal, black, dorsum with a greenish-yellow line
upon the middle, which is dilated in the middle upon segments
5 — 8; appendages black, superior ones short, trigonal, acute, with
a basal tooth beneath; the inferior one quadrangular, the apex
tuberculated each side ; vulvar lamina short, bifid, yellow, black at
the apex; wings hyaline, pterostigma long, fulvous, membranule
PETALURA — ANAX. Ill
whitish. Twenty-six antecubitals ; 17 — 20 postcubitals; two dis-
coidal areolets.
Length 83 — 88 millim. Alar expanse 112 — 124 millim. Ptero-
stigma 6 millim.
Hal. Indiana (Say); Georgia (Abbot); Connecticut (Norton).
PETALURA LEACH.
Pterostigma extremely long.
1. P. thoreyi !
Uropetala thoreyi Hagen! Monog. Gomph. 373, 122; pi. xix, fig. 3. —
Tachopteryx obscura Uliler MSS. — Tachopteryx thoreyi Selys ! Addit.
Synops. 25, 116 bis.
Olivaceous, spotted with black ; head pale in front, with a black
band, and above black; thorax olivaceous, the sides with two ob-
solete black stripes; feet black; abdomen long, equal, olivaceous,
dorsum of the second segment with two spots, the following ones
with a spot upon the basal middle, an apical ring, and the last seg-
ments almost altogether black ; appendages black, superior ones
dolabriform, the inferior quadrangular, with a basal tooth above,
and the apex each side unguiculated; wings hyaline, pterostigina
narrow, very long, fulvous. Male. 18 — 20 antecubitals; 11 — 13
postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 78 millim. Alar expanse 100 millim. Pterostigma 9
millim.
Hob. New York ; Maryland (Uhler) ; Fort Towson, Red River.
Subfamily IV. AESCHNINA.
Eyes contiguous; head globose; wings unequal, the posterior
ones broader ; triangles long ; genital organs of the female vagi-
nated.
ANAX LEACH.
Anal angle of the posterior wings rounded in the male ; second
segment of the abdomen not auriculated; abdomen with a lateral,
interrupted carina.
118 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
1. A. junius !
Libellula jimia Drury, Ins. 1, 112 ; pi. xlvii. fig. 5. — Aeschna junia Burm. !
Handb. II, 841, 18. Say, Jour. Acacl. Pkilacl. VIII, 10, 2. Ramb.
Neuropt. 196, 6. — Anax junius Selys ! Revue Odonat. Europ. 328.
Selys! Poey, Ins. Cuba, 458. — Anax spiniftrus Ramb. ! Neuropt. 186,
4 ; pi. i. fig. 14.
Green, spotted with blue and fuscous; bead yellow, above with
a black spot, and circular blue band; thorax green; feet black,
femora partly rufous ; abdomen long, subdepressed, equal, the base
very much inflated, narrowed beyond, the first segment and base
of the second green, the rest blue, with a dorsal, fuscous fascia,
interrupted, and in part angulose ; appendages fuscous, superior
ones of the male long, straight, towards the apex somewhat broader,
with an external spine at the apex, the inferior appendage very
short, quadrangular, transverse ; wings hyaline, flavescent upon
the middle, pterostigma long, yellow, narrow ; membranule large,
brownish-black, with the base white; seventeen antecubitals; eight
postcubitals.
Length 68 — 74 niillim. Alar expanse 104 — 110 millim. Ptero-
stigma 7 millim.
ffab. New York; Maryland; N"ew Jersey; Kentucky; Georgia;
Florida; Louisiana; St. Louis; S. Carolina; Pecos River, Texas;
Matamoras, Mexico; San Francisco, California; Cuba; Oahu,
Sandwich Islands; Kamtschatka; Petcheli Bay, China.
A common and wide-spread species. Rambur erroneously gives
Europe as its habitat.
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2. A. longipes !
Anax longipes Hagen !
Green, spotted with blue and fuscous; head yellow, above im-
maculate ; thorax green ; feet extremely long, black, femora rufous,
with the apex black; abdomen long, subdepressed, equal, the base
inflated, green; surface fuscous, each side of the segments having
an apical, yellow spot, beneath yellowish, apex of the segments
fuscous ; appendages short, foliaceous, fuscous ; wings hyaline,
pterostigma yellow ; membranule brownish black, white at the
base; nineteen antecubitals ; nine postcubitals.
Length 80 millim. Alar expanse 105 millim. Pterostigma 5^
millim.
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Hob. Georgia (Abbot, Zurich Museum).
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3. A. amazili.
Aeschna amasili Burm. ! Handb. II, 841, 19, Anax maculatus Ramb.
Neuropt. 188, 7.
Green, spotted with black ; head in front greenish-yellow, the
labrum margined with black ; front above, with a triangular, black
spot, bounded by yellow, each side a triangular blue spot ; thorax
bright green ; feet black, anterior femora luteous beneath ; abdo-
men long, stout, equal, the base inflated, blue ? (^) or green (9),
segments 3 to 10 with a broad, black, dorsal fascia, narrower upon
the middle of the segments ; segments 3 — 7, with two blue or
green spots each side, the last segments almost entirely black : ap-
pendages black, superior ones of the male long, carinate, villose
within, the base narrow, the internal margin dilated, before the
apex excised, the apex exteriorly recurved, obliquely truncated,
acute ; the inferior appendage very short, transverse, quadrangu-
lar ; appendages of the female shorter, foliaceous ; wings hyaline,
pterostigma short, blackish-fuscous ; membranule brownish-black,
the base white. 16 — 18 antecubitals ; 6 — 8 postcubitals.
Length 70 — 74 millim. Alar expanse 105 millim. Ptero-
stigma 5 millim.
Hob. Guatemala (Collection of Hagen) ; Venezuela (Appun) ;
Pernambuco, Brazil (Yeilenmann).
AESCHNA FAB.
Anal angle of the posterior wings of the male acute ; second
segment of the abdomen auriculated. *-*-
1. JE. sitchensis!
Aeschna sitchensis Hagen !
Blackish-fuscous, spotted with blue ; head ? ; thorax fuscous,
sides with two oblique, obsolete, yellowish stripes; feet black,
tibios exteriorly rufous ; abdomen long, slender, equal, very much
arcuated behind the inflated base ; black, spotted with blue ; seg-
ments 3 — 10 with two large, apical blue spots, 3 to 7, with two
basal blue spots, the second segment with two blue lines each
side ; appendages black, moderate, a little incurved, foliaceous, the
base narrow, within carinated, before the apex inflated, the apex
short, acute, incurved; the inferior appendage one-half shorter,
120 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
elongately-triangular, obtuse ; wings hyaline, pterostigma short,
black; membranule black. Male. Fifteen an tecubitals; nine post-
cubitals.
Length 58 millim. Alar expanse 78 millim. Pterostigma 4
millira.
Hal). Russian America, Sitka (Collection of Hagen).
It is very much like Aeschna borealis Zetterstedt, found in
Northern Europe and Siberia.
2. 2B. septentrionalis !
Aeschna septentrionalis Burm ! Handb. II, 839, 11. — Aeschna minor Ramb ?
Neuropt. 207, 20.
Blackish-brown, spotted with blue ; head yellow in front ; front
anteriorly with a narrow, transverse line, a spot, large anteriorly,
in the shape of a T, superiorly, and the rhinarium, black ; labruni
margined with black ; thorax fuscous, dorsum each side with a
point, sides with two, narrow, maculose stripes, yellow ; feet black,
above rufous ; abdomen long, stoutish, narrowed behind the in-
flated base, black, spotted with blue ; sides of the segments, two
medial and two apical spots, blue ; last segment of the male black,
each side blue, an elevated tooth above ; appendages brownish-
black, moderate, a little incurved, foliaceous, the base narrow, a
basal obtuse tubercle beneath ; carinated inwards, before the apex
inflated, the apex obtuse; the inferior appendage one-half shorter,
elongately-triangular, obtuse ; appendages of the female moderate,
foliaceous, obtuse ; wings hyaline, pterostigma fuscous, somewhat
broad; membranule gray. 14 — 16 antecubitals ; 11 — 12 postcu-
bitals.
Length 54 — 55 millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. Pterostigma
4 millim.
Hob. Labrador ; Nova Scotia.
Does Aeschna minor Rambur differ from it ? the wings with a
rufous spot at base. It is very much like Aeschna sitchensis,
Hagen.
3. .33. juncea!
Aeschna juncea Linne ! Selys, Revue Odonat. Europ. 116, 3. — (With the
synonyms.)
Fuscous, spotted with blue and yellow ; head yellow, a narrow,
transverse line in front, a T spot above, broader anteriorly, and the
2- 1
AESCHNA. 121
rhinarium, black ; thorax fuscous, dorsurn each side with a narrow,
short stripe, sometimes almost wanting and the sides with two
oblique, broad stripes, yellow ; feet black ; abdomen long, slender,
equal, very much narrowed behind the inflated base ; brownish-
black, with blue and yellow spots, segments 3 — 10 with two apical
blue spots, 3 — 8 with two triangular spots upon the middle, yellow,
apex of the second segment blue ; last segment with the males,
having an elevated, obtuse tooth above ; appendages brownish-
black, superior ones of the male, long, subrect, foliaceous, the base
narrower, a carina inwardly, the base narrower, before the apex
acuter, subincurved, inflated ; the inferior appendage almost one-
half shorter, elongately-triangular, obtuse ; appendages of the
female longer, foliaceous ; wings hyaline, pterostigma narrow, fus-
cous ; membranule brownish-cinereous, the base paler. 16 ante-
cubitals ; 7 — 9 postcubitals.
Length 66 — 75 rnillim. Alar expanse 92 — 100 millim. Ptero-
stigma 4 — 5 millim.
Hob. Russian America; Kenai Island, Norton Sound. — Europe;
Asia ; Siberia ; Kamtschatka ; Ural.
4. 2B. multicolor!
Aeschna multicolor Hagen !
Fuscous, spotted with blue; head blue (J1) or luteous (9), front
with a T spot, each side terminated with yellow, and a band before
the eyes, black ; thorax fuscous, dorsum each side with a stripe,
(interrupted or absent in the female), sides, each side with two
oblique ones blue (J*) or yellow (9); feet black, femora rufous
above, the apex black, anterior femora beneath, luteous; abdomen
moderate, slender, cylindrical, narrow behind the inflated base;
fuscous, spotted with blue (J1) or yellow (9), segments 3 — 10
with two large, apical spots, segments 3 — 8 with two triangular
spots upon the middle, and a basal, divided spot each side, seg-
ment 2 with a medial, interrupted fascia, and a broad apical one,
blue or yellow; superior appendages of the male black, long, folia-
ceous, narrow, the base narrower, inwardly carinated, straight,
curved inwardly before the apex, an elevated, triangular lamina
above, and a longer tooth placed more inferiorly, the apical tip
acute, curved downwards; the inferior appendage, pale fuscous,
one half shorter, elongately triangular; appendages of the female
moderate, fuscous, foliaceous, broader; wings hyaline, those of the
122 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
female, towards the apex, subflavescent, pterostigma short, fuscous,
or luteous (9) ; membranule fuscous, the base white. 16 — 17 ante-
cubitals; 8 — 9 postcubitals.
Length 65 — 61 millim. Alar expanse 90 — 100 milliru. Pte-
rostigma 3 — 3|- millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope) ; Upper Mis-
souri; Mexico; Cordova (Saussure).
5. .ffi. clepsydra!
Aeschna clepsydra Say. Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 12, 4.
Fuscous, spotted with blue ; head luteous, an incurved, trans-
verse line in front, a broad T spot above, terminated with blue and
yellow, black; thorax fuscous, dorsum each side with a cuneiform,
green stripe ; each side with two broad, maculose and lacerated
stripes, and an intermediate, abbreviated one, bluish-green ; feet
brownish-black, femora, tibiae and the outside of the tarsi rufous ;
abdomen long, slender, equal, very much attenuated behind the in-
flated base; segments 3 — 10 with two larger, apical spots, 3 — 8
with two triangular, medial ones and each side a basal, divided
one, segment 2 with a transverse, medial, interrupted fascia, and
the apex, blue; the last segment with a small, basal tooth above,
black, and blue spots confluent at the apex ; appendages fuscous,
margined with black, the superior ones long, narrow, straight,
narrower at base, interiorly with a carina and clothed with hairs,
the apex obtusely truncated, a small, acute, incurved tooth at the
apex; before the apex are three teeth, superiorly at the internal
margin ; the inferior appendage one-third shorter, elougately tri-
angular, acute ; wings hyaline, pterostigma moderate, fuscous ;
membranule fuscous. Male. 16 antecubitals ; 11 postcubitals.
Length 68 millim. Alar expanse 94 millim. Pterostigma 4
rnillirn.
Hob. Massachusetts (Say) ; Boston (Scudder) ; Baltimore (Uh-
ler).
6. .ai verticalis !
Aeschna verticalis Hageii 1
Fuscous, spotted with green and blue; head green, with a T
spot above, and a band before the eyes, black; thorax fuscous,
dorsum each side, with a cuneiform, green stripe; each side with
AESCHNA. 123
three oblique, yellowish-green stripes; feet black, femora and tibia?
above, rufous ; abdomen long, slender, equal, very much narrowed
behind the inflated base, fuscous, spotted with blue; spots like
those of JE. clepsydra, but not confluent on the last segment, with
a small, basal tooth upon that segment; appendages similar to
those of M. clepsydra, the tip of the apex acute, hardly incurved,
above, before the apex, with an elevated line, no teeth; inferior
appendage one half shorter, elongated, triangular, acuter; wings
hyaline, pterostigrna small, blackish-brown; membranule brownish-
cinereous. Male. 17 — 20 antecubitals; 11 — 12 postcubitals.
Length 67 millini. Alar expanse 95 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken) ; New York (Calverly).
7. 2&. hudsonica !
Aeschna hudsonica Selys' Collection.
Hab. Nova Scotia.
Similar to jE. juncea, but only known to me by name.
8. 2B. constricta!
Aeschna constricta Say. Journ. Acad. Pkilad. VIII, 11, 3.
Brownish-black, spotted with green and blue; labrum yellow,
head yellowish-green in front, a black T spot above ; thorax fus-
cous, dorsum each side with a stripe, which is broader at the wings,
the sides each with two oblique, green stripes ; feet black, femora
and tibise above, rufous ; abdomen long, equal, blackish-fuscous,
very much narrowed behind the inflated base; segments 3 — 10
with two, dorsal, apical, quadrangular, blue spots, 3 — 8 with two,
medial, triangular, yellow spots, each side with a basal, divided,
blue spot; second segment with a basal, dorsal, line, and each side
with a transverse line upon the middle, yellow ; the last segment
flat above; appendages fuscous, superior ones long, subarcuated,
the apex dilated, within carinated, before the apex tuberculous and
inwards an acute, recurved tooth, extreme apex with a longer
spine, which is acute and placed inferiorly; the inferior appendage
one-half shorter, elongately triangular, obtuse; wings hyaline,
pterostigma small, fuscous ; membranule fuscous, the base white.
Male. 17 — 21 antecubitals; 11 — 15 postcubitals.
124 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length 70 millim. Alar expanse 96 — 100 millim. Pterostigma
3 millim.
Hob. Indiana (Say) ; Maryland (Uhler) ; Wisconsin (Kenni-
cott); St. Louis; Pennsylvania; Connecticut (Xorton).
9. 2B. armata !
sEschtia armata Hagen !
Brownish-black, spotted with blue ; head in front obtuse, lurid,
above with a T spot and band before the eyes, black ; thorax fus-
cous, dorsum each side, anteriorly, with a yellowish-green spot;
sides each with two oblique, yellowish stripes, of which the supe-
rior one is arcuated; femora above, in the middle, rufous; abdomen
long, equal, narrowed behind the inflated base, black ; segments
3 — 6 with two, blue, apical spots, and two larger, triangular, yel-
low ones, upon the middle, sides blue ? second segment each side,
with a line and a narrow, basal triangle, yellow, the last segments
almost immaculate, the tenth segment, in the middle, above, with
along, compressed spine, bent backwards; appendages black, the
superior ones long, foliaceous, straight, the base inwards nar-
rowed, above carinated, the apex exteriorly obtuse, interiorly
acute; before the apex superiorly, with an elevated, oval, dentate
lamina; the inferior appendage one-half shorter, triangular, nar-
row, acute; wings subfumose, posterior ones of the female sub-
flavescent at base, pterostigraa very small, black; membranule
fusco-cinereous, the base whitish. Twenty antecubitals ; twelve
postcubitals.
Length 68 millim. Alar expanse 92 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hob. Troges del Oro, Mexico (Saussure, Deppe).
I have examined a mutilated male specimen.
10. JE. mutata !
j*Eschna mutata Hagen !
Fuscous, spotted with yellowish-green; labrum luteous, black
anteriorly ; front green, above blue, with a T spot, terminated each
side with yellow, and a band before the eyes, black; thorax fus-
cous, the sides each with two yellowish stripes ; feet black, base of
the femora rufous; abdomen long, equal, the base inflated, rufous,
segments 3 — 9 with two apical, green ? spots, which are margined
within with black ; segments 3 — 7 with two triangular, yellow,
AESCHNA. 125
medial spots ; base and sides rufous, paler ; appendages fuscous,
foliaceous ; wings hyaline, the base, anterior margin and middle
flavescent; pterostigma longer, narrow, bright orange; membra-
mile black, the base white. Female. Nineteen antecubitals; nine
postcubitals.
Length 70 millim. Alar expanse 98 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob. North America (Vienna Museum).
11. JE. Janata.
JSschna Janata Say, Jour. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 13, 6.
Fuscous, spotted with blue and yellow ; front yellow, with a
black T spot above; thorax fuscous, each side of dorsurn with a blue
stripe, sides each with two oblique, yellow stripes, which are mar-
gined with black ; feet yellowish, beneath black ; abdomen long,
contracted behind the inflated base, fuscous, segments with a yel-
lowish band at base, an interrupted apical one, and a spot in the
middle, the last segment but little shorter than the preceding one,
carinated at base ; appendages subarcuated, near the base some-
what dilated, the apex broader, pediform, obtuse ; inferior ap-
pendage hardly half as long as the superior ones ; wings hyaline,
extreme base fuscous, pterostigma fulvous; membrauule white.
Male. (From the description of Say.)
Length 60 ? millim.
Hob. Massachusetts.
Similar to JE. constricta, but the last abdominal segment is
longer, the apex of the appendages are mutic. It is entirely un-
known to me.
12. 2E. florida !
dSschna florida Hagen !
Fuscous, spotted with green ; front luteous, above green, imma-
culate, thorax fuscous, dorsum each side, with a very broad, green
stripe; sides green, with an oblique, narrow, fuscous stripe; feet
black, base of the femora rufous ; abdomen longer than the wings,
equal, the base inflated, the last segment shortest, fuscous, with a
green ? dorsal, interrupted stripe, -which is triangularly dilated at
the apex of the segments, a lateral green ? stripe, and the ninth
segment obsoletely bimaculated ; appendages shorter than the last
126 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
segment, very small, black, flat, obtuse ; wings subfumose, flaves-
cent anteriorly, pterostigma narrow, fulvous ; rnembrauule fusco-
ciuereous. Female. Twenty antecubitals; twelve postcubitals.
Length 18 inillim. Alar expanse 102 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob, Mexico (Deppe).
It is most like ^E. luteipennis Burm., but distinct by the front,
immaculate above, the stripes of the thorax being broader, not
well terminated.
13. 2E. dominicana.
^Esclina dominicana Selys' Collection.
Hal. St. Domingo. Unknown to me ; similar to .JE juncea.
14. 2B. contorta.
jEschna contorta Selys' Collection.
Hob. Nova Scotia. Unknown to nae ; similar to ^33. cyanea.
15. 2£. cyanifrons.
jEschna cyanifrons Selys' Collection.
Hab. Jamaica. Unknown to me ; similar to ^33. confusa.
16. 2B. grandis!
JEschna grandis Linne. Selys, Revue Odonat. Eur. 131, 10 (with the
synonymy).
Fuscous ; head luteous, front with a spot above, anteriorly, fus-
cous ; thorax fulvous, the sides each, with two oblique, yellow
stripes, which are bounded with fuscous; feet fulvous; abdomen
long, equal, behind the base inflated, then slightly narrowed, rufo-
fuscous, with lateral, divided, blue spots ; appendages fuscous,
superior ones straight, foliaceous, carinated within, narrow at the
base, at the apex obtuse ; the inferior one-half shorter, triangular,
obtuse; wings flavescent, pterostigma small, fulvous; membrauule
cinereous. 20 — 22 antecubitals; 12 postcubitals.
Length 70 millim. Alar expanse 94 millim. Pterostigma 3£
millim.
Hab. Bergen Hill, New Jersey (Guex) ; I saw a single male.
It is also common in Europe and Asia.
AESCHNA. 127
17. .33. adnexa!
j&schna adnexa Hagen 1
Fuscous, spotted with green ; labrum 'pale, fuscous anteriorly ;
front anteriorly blue, above yellowish-green, with a broader T spot,
and an ante-ocular band, black ; thorax bright green, dorsum with
a divided, middle fascia, and a lateral spot, the sides with two ob-
lique streaks, all badly terminated, fuscous ; feet black ; abdomen
a little narrowed at base, fuscous, the second segment with a medial
and apical fascia, the third segment with a dorsal line, which is
triangularly dilated upon the middle and apex, and the sides green ?
(the other segments are destroyed) ; wings hyaline, pterostigma
moderate; brownish-black, membranule black. Male. 19 ante-
cubitals; 10 postcubitals.
Length 60? millim. Alar expanse 87 millirn. Pterostigma 4
millira.
Hob. Cuba (Poey).
Is it jE. cyanifrons Selys ? I have only examined a single
mutilated specimen.
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18. -33. virens !
Aeschna virens Rainb. Neuropt. 193, 3.
Green, spotted with fuscous ; labrum black anteriorly ; head
green, above with a T spot, and a narrow baud before the eyes
black ; thorax bright green, sutures fuscous ; feet black, anterior
femora beneath yellowish ; abdomen long, equal, a little narrowed
behind the somewhat inflated base, green, spotted with fuscous,
first segment green posteriorly, segments 2 to 8 green, with four
fuscous, quadrangular spots, upon segments 2 to 4 they are smaller ;
segment 3 has the spots linear, basal ; apical segments fuscous ;
appendages black, superior ones straight, foliaceous, obtuse; the
inferior appendage one-half shorter, triangular, acute (of the female
destroyed), wings hyaline, of the female, subflavescent posteriorly,
pterostigma elongated, brownish-black ; membranule brownish-
gray. 20 — 24 antecubitals; 12— 13 postcubitals.
Length 84 millim. Alar expanse 118 millim. Pterostigma
5 — 6 millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey) ; St. Cruz de Bolivia (Rambur) ; Venezuela.
I have examined one female from the Island of Cuba ; nor am
I altogether certain, whether the* male described from Venezuela
128 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
belongs here ; it is extremely like it, by its few antecubitals, its
long pterostigma, its obscure membranule, and its hyaline wings.
I possess two females from Cuba (Poey), which are a little smaller;
the bases of all the wings are flavesceut; in all the rest they agree
entirely with the description of JE. virens Rambur.
19. .33. ingens !
). &\. ingens !
Aeschna ingens Ramb. Neuropt. 192, 1.
Green, spotted with fuscous ; labrum black anteriorly ; head
green, above with a T spot, and fascia before the eyes, black ;
dorsum of the thorax fuscous, with a green stripe each side ; sides
green, with an oblique, narrow, fuscous stripe ; feet black, anterior
femora pale beneath ; abdomen long, gradually narrowing poste-
riorly, that of £ hardly narrowed behind the base, fuscous,
marked with green, the first segment green posteriorly, the second
green, with a transverse, fuscous fascia at the apex, the following
ones fuscous, with a dorsal, interrupted line, a middle fascia, trian-
gularly dilated, an apical fascia, and the sides with a broader,
interrupted fascia, green ; the last segment fuscous, with two green
spots ; appendages fuscous ; superior ones of the male long, folia-
ceous, straight, obtuse ; the inferior one half as long, triangular,
acute, those of the female extremely long, lanceolate, the base
broader, before the apex slightly narrowed, subacute ; wings hya-
line, of the female flavescent at base, pterostigma long, fulvous ;
membranule gray. 20 antecubitals ; 12 postcubitals.
Length 100 millim. Alar expanse 110 — 120 millim. Ptero-
stigma 5 millim.
Hob. St. John's River, near Lake Harney, Florida (Osten
Sacken ; Norton) ; Cuba ; United States (Selys).
20. JE. heros !
Aeschna heros Fab. Entom. Syst. Suppl. 285.— Ramb. ! Neuropt. 194, 4. —
Aeschna multicincta Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 9, 1.
Fuscous, marked with yellowish-green ; front obscure luteous,
above fuscous, each side with a yellowish-green spot ; occiput of
the female bifid ; .thorax fuscous, dorsum each side with a stripe,
which is angulated at the wings, and the sides with two oblique
stripes, green ; feet black, base of the femora subrufous ; abdomen
long, stout, hardly broader at base, fuscous, the base, middle and
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apex, of the segments, with a subinterrupted, narrow, green fascia;
appendages black, subarcuated, the base narrower, a tubercle be-
neath, the apex carinated, truncated, inner edge villose ; inferior
appendage one-half the length of the superior, narrow, almost
equal, the apex obtusely truncated, sometimes almost bifid ; ap-
pendages of the female broad, ovate, foliaceous ; wings hyaline,
subflavescent in the middle, the apex sometimes infuscated, ptero-
stigma long, narrow, fulvous ; membranule white ; twenty-five an-
tecubitals; sixteen postcubitals.
Length 85 — 96 millim. Alar expanse 108 — 120 millirn. Ptero-
stigma 5 — 6 millim.
Hob. Indiana (Say) ; Massachusetts (Harris) ; New York
(Calverly) ; N. Jersey (Guex) ; Maryland (Uhler) ; Tennessee
(Saussure) ; Waterville ; Mobile ; Florida, Lake Harney (Osteu.
Sacken) ; Louisiana (Schaum) ; Mexico (Rambur).
21. 2B. brevifrons !
JEschna brevifrons Hagen.
Fuscous, varied with blue; head luteous in front, varied with
fuscous; front short, broad, above with a T .spot in the middle, the
root of which is triangularly dilated, black, surrounded with a yel-
low margin; thorax with the dorsum luteous, a short, fuscous
streak each side; the sides blue, obscurely varied with white and
black; feet yellow, beneath, knees, and the tarsi, black; abdomen
inflated at base, nigro-fuscous, the segments with middle triangular
spots and oval apical ones, blue; segment 2 has a transverse, me-
dial, blue line, each side, bounded by black; segment 10 (J*) has
the apex rounded, blue, a small, elevated tooth at base, and a
black spot each side; superior appendages foliaceous, fuscous,
narrower at base; the inferior one luteous, broad, triangular, a
little shorter than the superiors ; appendages of the female short,
foliaceous, fuscous; wings hyaline, pterostigma short, fuscous;
twelve antecubitals ; ten postcubitals.
Length 67 millim. Alar expanse 91 millim. Pterostigma 2^
millim.
Hab. Acapulco, Mexico ; Valparaiso.
22. 2E. pentacantha !
^Eschna pentacantha Ramb. 1 Neuropt. 208, 22.
Yaried rufous and green; front produced; face yellow, subex-
9
130 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
cavated, the superior margin bounded by rufous; the front blue
above, margined with yellow, the base rufo-fuscous ; thorax villose,
rufo-fuscous, dorsum each side with an arcuated stripe, sides each
with two, green ones; feet black, femora partly rufous ; abdomen
long, sensibly narrowing posteriorly, rufo-fuscous, spotted with
green (the markings obsolete); appendages black, superior ones
short, narrow, before the apex dilated beneath, obliquely trunca-
ted; the inferior one a little shorter, narrow, triangular, obtuse;
those of the female very small ; wings hyaline, the apex subfuraose,
pterostigma narrow, yellow; membranule whitish ; nineteen ante-
cubitals ; nineteen postcubitals.
Length 73 millim. Alar expanse 102 miilim. Pterostigma 3^
millim.
Hab. New Orleans (Schaum).
23. 2E. basalis.
*
JEschna basalis Selys' Collection.
Hab. Canada. Unknown to me.
24. -S3. quadriguttata !,
jEschna quadriguttata Burm. ! Handb. II, 837, 22.— Selys, Revue Odonat.
Eur. 398. ^Eschna vinosa Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 13, 5.
Fulvous; head fulvous, above with a fuscous stripe; thorax ful-
vous, the sides, each with two bright yellow spots, which are en-
circled, with fuscous ; feet luteous; abdomen long, equal, much nar-
rowed behind the inflated base, fulvous, spotted with yellow
(markings obsolete), segments with a yellow medial fascia, which
is triangularly dilated ; the apex yellow, with a trifid fuscous spot ;
appendages fulvous, the superior ones long, foliaceous, obtuse, the
base narrower, and beneath with a small tooth ; the inferior ap-
pendage very short, triangular, broader, obtuse; wings hyaline,
with fulvous veins and a basal fulvous spot, the basal space reticu-
lated, pterostigma small, yellow; membranule small, white; 19 — 20
antecubitals ; nineteen postcubitals.
Length 60 — 65 millim. Alar expanse 85 millim. Pterostigma
3? milliua.
Hab. Pennsylvania; Carolina; Massachusetts; Washington
(Osten Sacken) ; Maryland (Uhler).
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25. 2B. furcillata.
jEschna furclllata Say, Jour. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 15, 7. — Gynacantha
quadr/Jida Ramb. ! Neuropt. 209, 1.
Yaried green and fuscous ; face yellowish, beneath obsoletely
spotted, above with a somewhat T-shaped mark, which is dilated
at base, black ; thorax pubescent, green, dorsum rufo-fuscous, with
two green stripes each side, the superior ones being transverse, and
short ; the sides with a fascia composed of three spots, black ; ab-
domen long, cylindrical, inflated at the base, and then narrowed;
varied with black and green, the basal spots larger; superior ap-
pendages long, foliaceous, subincurved, with a basal and medial
tubercle beneath ; the inferior appendage short, bifurcated, the
branches diverging ; wings hyaline, pterostigma short, broad, quad-
rangular; membranule sub-obscure. ( g . From the descriptions
of Rambur and Say.)
Size of Libellula femiginea Ramb. ; but longer. Length 55 ?
millim.
Hub. North America (collection of de Selys Longchamps) ; Mas-
sachusetts (Say).
GYNACANTHA RAMB.
Wings, with the anal angle of the posteriors, in the males, acute ;
second segment of the abdomen auriculated ; last segment of the
female spinous beneath.
1. Gyn. trifida !
Gynacantha trifida Ramb. Neuropt. 210, 3. — Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 459.
Fuscous, spotted with green ; head obsoletely green in front,
above with a T spot, black ; thorax fuscous, dorsum each side with
a cuneiform, green stripe ; sides green, with two oblique, fuscous
lines; feet rufo-fuscous, tarsi black ; abdomen long, slender at the
base, inflated, then narrowed fuscous, nearly all the segments with
spots upon the middle, and two at apex, green ; appendages fus-
cous, superior ones of the male, slender, the base narrow, cultriform,
the apex acute, subaduncate, interiorly ciliated; the inferior one
very short, triangular, obtuse ; those of the female very long, foli-
aceous, towards the apex broader, obtuse ; the last segment pro-
duced beneath, with three spines; wings hyaline, the base, in the
132 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
males, subflavescent, pterostigma moderate, fuscous ; nineteen an-
tecubitals ; twelve postcubitals.
Length 60 — 70 millim. Alar expanse 84 — 90 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3| millim.
Hal. Cuba (Poey) ; Jamaica ; Brazil.
This species migrates in flocks during the early part of spring.
(Poey.)
2. Gyn. septima.
Gynacantha septima Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 460.
Similar to the preceding, brownish-olive, the extremity of the
front with a transverse, obsolete, fuscous spot ; feet pale ferrugi-
nous ; wings hyaline, or a little infuscated (adult) ; pterostigma
rather short, fuscous ; the male with a small, 4-toothed auricle
(3-toothed in Gyn. trifida)] appendages, superior ones long, slen-
der, acute ; the inferior one very short. (Male ; from the descrip-
tion of De Selys Longchamps.) Of a little smaller size than Gyn.
trifida.
Hob. Jamaica ; Brazil.
Not sufficiently known to me.
Tribe III. LIBEIXtlLIIVA.
Wings unequal; triangle of the anterior wings dissimilar; ante-
rior genital hamule of the male free; penis and vesicle conjoined;
genital organs of the female uncovered.
Sub-family V. CORDULINA.
Eyes with a tubercle in the middle, posteriorly.
MACROMIA RAMBUK.
Legs very long; tarsal unguiculi bifid, the branches equal.
1. M. taeniolata!
Macromia taeniolata Ramb. Neuropt. 139, 3. — Macromia vittigera Ramb.
Neuropt. 140,4. — Macromia cincta Ramb. Neuropt. 141, 5.
Obscure brassy-green ; mouth luteous ; front with a fascia ante-
riorly yellow, above excavated, brassy-green; thorax brassy-green,
MACROMIA. 133
dorsum each side, in front, with an abrupt yellow stripe, and the
sides with an oblique, medial, yellow one; feet black; abdomen
long, slender, brownish-black, segments 2 — 8 each side with a
dorsal, yellow spot; appendages black, the superior ones cylindri-
cal, with a small tooth outside ; the apical half a little incurved,
the apex acute; the inferior appendage equal, triangular, narrow;
wings hyaline, pterostigma small, black; membranule cinereous.
Male. The vulvar lamina is bilobed. (Female from the descrip-
tion of Rainbur.) Twenty antecubitals ; nine postcubitals; one
discoidal areolet.
Length 85 millim. Alar expanse 110 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob. ^Philadelphia ; Maryland (Uhler).
2. M. cingulata.
Macromia cingulata Ramb. Neuropt. 137, 1.
Varied with black and yellow; mouth yellow; labium in the
middle, and margin of the labrum black; front excavated and black
superiorly; thorax violet-bluish, each side with three stripes, which
are anteriorly abrupt, yellow ; abdomen with yellow bands supe-
riorly, which are narrowed ; feet black ; wings hyaline, a spot at
base and the apex broadly flavescent; pterostigma small, rufo-
fuscous. (Female from the description of Rambur.) Antecubi-
tals — ? postcubitals — ? two discoidal areolets.
Length near 50 millim. Alar expanse near 85 millim.
Hab. North America.
3. M. annulata !
Macromia annulata Hagen !
Fuscous, varied with yellow; mouth and front yellow, front ex-
cavated above and yellow, with a median fuscous line; thorax fus-
cous, somewhat tinged with brassy-green, dorsum each side with a
little abrupted fascia, and the sides each with two oblique stripes,
yellow ; feet black, base of the anterior femora yellow ; abdomen
long, slender, fuscous, segment 2 with a transverse fascia, segments
3 to 8 with a large, dorsal, quadrangular spot, yellow; appendages
fuscous, yellowish at base; the superior ones cylindrical, with a
tooth upon the external middle, the apical half subincurved, the
apex obtuse; the inferior appendage yellowish, equal, triangular ;
the vulvar lamina short, excised ; wings hyaline, the extreme base,
134 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
in the female, flavescent, pterostigma small, black; membranule
whitish cinereous; 14 — 16 antecubitals; 8 — 9 postcubitals ; two
discoidal areolets.
Length 68 — 73 millirn. Alar expanse 90 — 102 millim. Ptero-
stigma 2^ millim.
Eab. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
4. M. pacifica!
Macromia pacifica Hagen !
Fuscous ; thorax fuscous, tinged with brassy-green, dorsum each
side with a stripe, and sides each with an oblique stripe, yellow ;
abdomen fuscous, spotted with yellow in part ; feet black ; abdo-
minal appendages blackish-fuscous, the superior ones broader at
base, a tooth upon the external middle ; the basal half narrower,
incurved, the apex acute, inferior appendage black, triangular, a
little longer; wings hyaline, base of the posterior ones subfumose;
pterostigma small, black ; merabranule whitish-cinereous. Male.
Sixteen anteeubitals; eleven postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length — ? millim. Alar expanse 86 millim. Pterostigma 2J
millira.
Hab. North America, Pacific R. R. Survey, Lat. 38°.
The specimen is very much mutilated ; I saw nothing but frag-
ments, excepting the wings, feet, thorax, and abdomen.
EPITHECA CHARP.
The triangles with transverse veins; hind wings of the male with
the anal angle rounded ; the accessory membranule large.
E. princeps !
Epitheca princeps Hagen !
Fuscous; mouth and front pale, labrum yellow; thorax luteous,
dorsum anteriorly obsoletely fuscous, the sides at the feet a little
varied with fuscous ; feet luteo-fuscous, tibiae black, the anterior
ones luteo-fuscous exteriorly ; abdomen long, the base inflated, the
apex equal, luteous, the dorsum obsoletely marked with fuscous ;
appendages long, fuscous, superior ones cylindrical at base, nar-
row, inflated at the apex, subincurved, obtuse ; the inferior one
luteous, shorter, triangular ; vulvar lamina long, bilobcd ; wings
hyaline, base of the anterior ones with a broad streak, a large,
DIDYMOPS. 135
triangular basal spot to the posterior ones, a large fenestrated,
nodal spot, and the apices of all the wings brownish, pterostigma
small, black; metnbranule large, white, the apex brownish-cinereous.
Var. The spots of the wings smaller, or almost wanting.
Eight antecubitals; 5 — 6 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 63 millim. Alar expanse 88 — 93 millim. Pterostigma
3 millim.
Hab. Pecos River, Western Texas; Georgia (Abbot) ; Mary-
land.
A large specimen (J*) from Georgia, has 72 millims. length;
alar expanse 102 millim., the fuscous spots of the wings are broader
but it is hardly distinct.
DIDYMOPS RAMBDR.
Triangles with transverse veins ; tarsal nails bifid, the branches
equal.
1. D. transversal
Libelhda transversa Say, Journ. Acad. VIII, 19, 3. — Epophthalmia cinna-
monea Burm. Handb. II, 845, 2. — Didymops Servillii Ramb. ! Neu-
ropt. 142, 1.
Rufo-fuscous, villous; front with a transverse, yellow fascia,
above excavated, each side with a yellow spot ; thorax rufo-fuscous,
each side with an oblique, whitish stripe ; abdomen stout, almost
cylindrical, rufo-fuscous, the segments paler at base; appendages
short, fuscous ; vulvar lamina truncatedly-excised, short ; feet
rufous, tibiae yellow exteriorly, tarsi black;/ wings hyaline, veins
rufous, with a short, rufo-fuscous, basal, longitudinal spot, ptero-
stigma small, fulvous ; membranule white, the apex cinereous.
(Female.)
Appendages of the male lanceolate, subarcuated, the apex exte-
riorly snbdenticulated; the inferior appendage equal to the supe-
riors. (From the description of Say.)
12 — 13 antecubitals; nine postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 55 millim. Alar expanse 75 — 80 millim. Pterostigma
2 millim.
Hab. Carolina (Zimmerman) ; "Washington (Osten Sacken) ;
Massachusetts (Say) ; Pennsylvania (Ziegler) ; New York (Asa
Fitch).
136 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
2. D. obsoleta!
Libellula obsoleta Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 28, YJ.—Libellula polij-
sticta Burm.l Handb. II, 856, 53.
Testaceous, hairy ; mouth and front luteous ; thorax testaceous,
dorsum with a point each side, anteriorly, and the sides with a
spot upon the middle, inferiorly, yellow ; abdomen long, the base
inflated, the apex depressed, broad, testaceous ; appendages tes-
taceous, the superior ones long, the base cylindrical, the apex
broader outwardly, incurved, subacute ; the inferior one a little
shorter, triangular ; wings hyaline, the second series of antecubital
veins banded with yellow, the hind wings with a fulvous spot at
base, pterostigma small, yellow ; membranule white, the apex
black. (Male.)
The female has the basal spot of the wings larger (Say.)
7 8 autecubitals ; eight postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets,
then three following.
Length 43 millim. Alar expanse 62 millim. Pterostigma 2z
millim.
Hob. New Orleans ; Indiana ; Massachusetts (Say).
CORDULIA LEACH.
Anal angle of the posterior wings of the male, acute (body
brassy-green).
1. C. filosa!
Cordulia filosa Hagen !
Obscure brassy green ; labium luteous, labrum and front fuscous ;
front above, and the vertex brassy-green; thorax brassy-green,
the sides, each, with two, obsolete, yellow lines ; feet black ; abdo-
men long, slender, the base inflated, then becoming more slender,
the apex a little broader, the second segment inferiorly, with a
lateral, luteous spot ; appendages black, the superior ones long,
cylindrical, arcuated, before the apex thicker, the apex recurved
outwards, the extreme apex unguiculated inside ; the inferior ap-
pendage half the length of the superior ones, narrow, triangular;
wings hyaline, pterostigma small, black ; membranule large, fuscous,
paler inwardly ; anal angle of the posterior wings acute in the male.
( J1.) Eight autecubitals; six postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 57 millim. Alar expanse 78 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
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2. C. linearis !
Cordulia linearis Hagen !
Obscure brassy-green ; labium luteous ; labrum and front fus-
cous, the front above, and the vertex brassy-green ; thorax small,
brassy-green, the sides fuscous, with a subaqueous tinge ; feet black,
base of the anterior femora luteous ; abdomen very long, slender,
the base compressed, inflated, brownish-black, segments 2 — 8 with
a basal, obsolete, yellow spot each side ; appendages black, the
superior ones short, the base cylindrical, arcuated, a small tooth
externally, the apex dilated, acutely bifid, before the apex is an-
other external tooth ; the inferior appendage a little shorter, tri-
angular, narrow ; wings hyaline, pterostigma small, black ; mem-
branule large, fuscous, the base pale ; anal angle of the male acute ;
nine antecubitals; 8 — 9 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 60 millim. Alar expanse 92 millim. Pterostigma 3
millira.
Hob. St. Louis.
3. C. tenebrosa.
Libellula tenebrosa Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 19, 4.
Obscure brassy-green ; labium luteous ; labrum and front fus-
cous ; front brassy-green above ; vertex fuscous ; thorax brassy-
green, each side with two lines, and a point posteriorly, yellow ;
abdomen obscure brassy-green, the base inflated, then very slender,
behind the middle, fusiform ; superior appendages arcuated, a
tooth upon the middle superiorly, the apex abruptly incurved,
truncated; feet black; wings hyaline, pterostigma black; mem-
branule blackish, the base whitish ; interior, anal margin of the
posterior wings fulvo-fuscous. (From the description of Say.)
Length 51 millim. or larger.
Hob. Indiana.
4. C. bifurcata.
Cordulia bifurcata Selys' Collection.
Hob. Canada ; Nova Scotia. Unknown to me,
5. C. libera.
Cordulia libera Selys' Collection.
Hob. Canada. Unknown to me.
138 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
6. C. procera.
Cordulia procera Selys' Collection.
Hob. North America. Unknown to me.
7. C. chalybea.
Cordulia chalybea Selys' Collection.
Hal. Nova Scotia. Unknown to me.
8. C. franklini.
Cordulia franklini Selys' Collection.
Hob. Hudson's Bay. Unknown to me.
9. C. richardsoni.
Cordulia richardsoni Selys' Collection.
Hab. Mackenzie River ; Labrador. Unknown to me.
10. C. cingulata.
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Cordulia cingulata Selys' Collection.
Hab. Newfoundland. Unknown to me.
11. C. tenebrica.
Cordulia tenebrica Selys' Collection.
Hab. Nova Scotia. Unknown to me.
12. C. saturata.
Cordulia saturata Selys' Collection.
Hab. Nova Scotia. Unknown to me.
13. C. albicincta!
Epophthalmia albicincta Burm. ! Handb. II, 847, 8.
Brassy-green, hairy; labiuui luteous, front inferiorly and at
sides, luteous, above and vertex brassy-green ; thorax bright green-
brassy ; feet black ; abdomen slender, at the base inflated, then
slenderer, the apex equal, brassy-black, the base each side, and
the last segment at the apex, luteous; appendages black, the supe-
rior ones short, depressed, straight, a basal tooth, and another
upon the middle beneath, apex truncated, an internal unguiculus,
which is arcuated, produced ; inferior appendage triangular, a
little shorter ; vulvar lamina bilobed ; wings hyaline, anterior
CORDULIA. 139
margin, in the females, subflavescent ; pterostigma fulvous; mein-
branule large, fuscous, whitish at the base ; anal angle of the
males subacute ; 7 — 8 antecubitals ; 7 — 8 postcubitals ; two dis-
coiclal areolets.
Length 48 millim. Alar expanse 66 millirn. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hub. Labrador. Is it not C. franklini?
14. C. septentrionalis !
Cordulia septentrionalis Hagen!
Brassy-greeu, hairy ; labium luteous ; front brassy-green above,
each side with a yellow spot; vertex brassy-green; thorax brassy-
green, dorsum with a spot each side at the wings, and the sides
each with two maculose stripes, yellow; feet black, anterior femora
yellowish at base ; abdomen slender, behind the base inflated, then
attenuated, with the apex equal, brassy-black, the base each side,
obsoletely luteous; the apex each side luteous, villose; append-
ages black, superior ones longer, subdepressed, straight, with a
larger, basal tooth beneath, and a smaller one upon the external
middle, internal, apical hook oblique, longer, the tip recurved; the
inferior appendage half the length of the superiors, triangular ;
vulvar lamina bilobed ; wings hyaline, the posterior ones with a
small, basal, triangular, brownish-black spot, pterostigma small,
fulvous ; membranule large, fuscous, the base whitish ; anal angle
of the males subacute ; seven antecubitals ; seven postcubitals ;
two discoidal areolets.
Length 43 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim. Pterostigma 2£
millim.
Hob. Labrador. Is it not G. richardsoni?
15. C. lateralis !
Epophthalmia lateralis Burm.! Handb. II, 847, 7. LibeUula cynosura Say,
Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 30, 19.
Fuscous ; mouth and front luteous, above with an ante-ocular,
narrow, black fascia ; thorax luteo-fuscous, with gray hair, sides
with an obsolete, yellow stripe ; feet black, anterior femora almost
entirely, and the base of the others luteous ; abdomen depressed,
a little broadened, the base inflated, compressed ; brownish-black,
each side with a < marginal, maculose, yellow stripe; appendages
black, superior ones long, cylindrical, obtuse, sub-arcuated, the
140 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
base narrow ; inferior appendage shorter, triangular; vulvar lamina
longly bifid; wings hyaline, posterior ones with a basal streak, and
triangular basal spot, which is sometimes larger, blackish-fuscous,
pterostigma luteous ; membranule large, whitish-gray; anal angle
of the males rounded ; seven antecubitals ; four postcubitals ; two
discoidal areolets.
Length 35 — 41 millim. Alar expanse 58 rnillim. Pterostigma
2 milliin.
ffab. Massachusetts (Say); Philadelphia; Ohio; Louisiana;
Florida (Osten Sacken).
Does it belong to this genus? Perhaps it is an Epitlieca.
TETRAGONEURIA SELYS.
Reticulation of the wings dense ; anal angle of the posterior
wings of the male, rounded.
1. T. semiaquea!
Libellula semiaquea Burm. ! Handb. II, 849, 61. Cordulia complanata
Rainb. ! Neuropt. 145, 2, (in part.)
Fuscous; mouth and front luteous; thorax luteous, villose ; the
sides with an obsolete, yellow stripe ; feet black, anterior femora
luteous; abdomen broad, depressed, short, brownish-black, each
side with a marginal, maculose, yellow stripe; appendages black,
superior ones long, cylindrical, obtuse, the base narrow ; inferior
one triangular, a little shorter; vulvar lamina longly bifid ; wings
hyaline, basal half of the posteriors fuscous, subfenestrated ; ptero-
stigma small, luteous; membranule large, whitish; anal angle of
the males rounded ; six autecubitals ; five postcubitals ; two dis-
coidal areolets.
Length 32—36 millim. Alar expanse 52 — 58 millim. Ptero-
stigma 2 millim.
Jfab. Savannah, Georgia ; South Carolina.
2. T. balteata !
Tetragoneuria balteata Hagen !
Luteo-fuscous; mouth and front pale yellow ; labrum with a
basal point, and the front with a band at the eyes, fuscous ; the
large vertex and the occiput, pale yellow; thorax luteous, villose,
the sides yellow, two obsolete stripes each side, and larger spots at
PANTALA. 141
the base of the feet, blackish fuscous ; feet black, base of the femora
luteous; abdomen short, stout, triquetral, the base subinflated, lu-
teous, the incisures and the three apical segments, black ; append-
ages luteous ; vulvar lamina short, subemarginate ; wings hyaline,
with luteous veins, the base with a fulvous spot, that of the ante-
rior wings small, pterostigma yellow; membranule cinereous. (Fe-
male.) Six antecubitals ; five postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 37 millini. Alar expanse 68 millim. Pterostigma 2£
rnillim.
Hal. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
Does it belong to this genus ?
3. T. diffinis.
Tetragoneuria diffinis Selys' Collection.
Hob. Nova Scotia. "Unknown to me.
4. T. costalis.
Teti agoneuria costalis Selys' Collection.
Hob. Georgia. Unknown to me.
Sub-Fam. YI. LIBELLULINA.
Eyes entire behind; beginning of the second series of postcubi-
tal spaces with no transverse veins.
PANTALA HAGEN.
Eyes connected in a long space; posterior lobe of the prothorax
small, entire ; abdomen cylindrical, stout, the apex sensibly attenu-
ated, basal segments 2 — 4 with two transverse sutures ; feet long,
slender; base of the posterior wings triangularly dilated; ptero-
stigma small, trapezoidal; first sector of the triangle of the ante-
rior wings straight; triangles of the anterior wings narrow, long;
caudal appendages elongated; genital organs of the male a little
prominent, the anterior lamina bifid; internal branch of the hamule
unguiculated; no unguiculus to the external one; vulva disclosed,
the margin recurved, entire ; the following segment carinated be-
neath, and bituberculated.
142 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
1. P. flavescens!
Libellulaflavtscens Fab.! Ent. Syst. Snppl. 285, 18-19 ; Selys ! Poey, Ins.
Cuba, 443. — Libellula viridula Beauv. Ins. Afr., et Amer. Keur. 69,
pi. iii, fig. 4. Descript. de 1'Egypte, Neuropt. pi. I, fig. 4. Ram-
burl Neuropt. 38, 10. — Libellula analis Burin.! Handb. II, 852, 23.
Libellula terminalis Burrn.! Handb. II, 852, 24. — Libellula sparshallii
Dale. Curtis, Guide. 162, 5. .Selys, Monog. Libell. 36. Selys,
Revue des Odonat. 322.
Testaceous-yellow; mouth, front and vertex pale; feet black,
base of the femora, and the tibia exteriorly, yellowish ; thorax with
black spots inferiorly; abdomen with a dorsal, maculose, black
stripe, which is often almost obsolete; appendages black, yellow-
ish at base; wings hyaline, anal margin of the posterior ones fla-
vescent, apices of all the wings sometimes a little fumose, ptero-
stigrna luteous; membranule white; fourteen antecubitals; seven
postcubitals; three discoidal areolets.
Length 43 — 52 millim. Alar expanse 76 — 91 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 millim.
Hub. It encircles the whole world; no other species occupies so
many countries. America. Georgia; St. Louis; Maryland (Uhler,
rare and local); Cuba; Martinique; St. Thomas (Lib. terminalis
Burm.); Venezuela; Surinam; Para, Brazil.
Asia. Banco; Sumatra (Lib. flavescens Fab.); Java (Lib. ana-
fo* Burin.); Pondichery; Tranquebar; Bengal; Nicobar Islands;
Ceylon; China; Japan; Luzon; Kamtsehatka.
Oceanica. Oahu ; Borabora ; Tahiti ; New South Wales.
Africa. Egypt; Senegambia; Sierra Leone; Angola; Owara;
Congo (Lib. viridula Beauv.) ; Port Natal; Isle of France.
Europe ? England, Horning (Dale) ; very likely an error.
2. P. hymeneea!
Libellula hymcnsca Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 19, 1.
Viridescent; mouth, front, and vertex yellowish; feet black, base
of the femora, and the tibiae exteriorly, yellowish; thorax each side,
with two oblique, pale lines ; abdomen with a maculose, dorsal
stripe, which is obsolete anteriorly, and the sutures, black ; ap-
pendages green; wings hyaline; anal margin of the posterior ones
subflavescent, a round, fuscous spot, veined with yellow, before the
anal angle ; pterostigma yellowish ; membrane white ; fourteen
TRAMEA. 143
antecubitals; seven postcubitals; four discoidal areolets (only three
at the triangle).
Length 47 millini. Alar expanse 88 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hab. Indiana (Say); Pecos River, Western Texas (Captain
Pope) ; Matarnoras, Mexico.
TRAMEA HAGEN.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the prothorax
small, entire ; abdomen stout, cylindrical, slightly carinated ; at-
tenuated at the apex, segments 3 and 4 with transverse sutures ;
feet long, slender ; base of the posterior wings triangularly dilated ;
pterostigma small, trapezoidal ; first sector of the triangle of the
anterior wings, almost straight ; triangle long, narrow ; caudal
appendages very much elongated, slender ; genital organs of the
male a little prominent, anterior lamina recurved, entire, hamule
cylindrical, the external branch elongated, no internal branch ;
vulvar lamina large, bifid, obtected, the segment following sub-
cariuated beneath.
1. T. Carolina!
Libellula Carolina Linne, Centur. Insect. 28, 85 ; Amoen. Acad. VI, 441.
Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 904, 17 ; ed. XIII, V, 2624, 17. Drury, Ins. I,
113, pi. xipviii, fig. 1. Fab. Syst. Ent. 424, 23; Sp. Ins. I, 524,
30; Mantiss. Ins. I, 338, 33; Entom. Syst. 11,382,41. Burm. !
Haudb. II, 852, 26. Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 19, 2. Ramb. !
Neuropt. 32, 1. Selys, Poey, Ins. Cuba. 440.
Rufo-fnscous ; front superiorly, and vertex of the males brassy-
purple ; feet black, base of the femora rufous ; abdomen sometimes
pruinose, the three apical segments with a broad, dorsal, black
band ; superior appendages of the male black, the_basal half ru-
fous, as long as the tyo apical segments; the inferior appendage
reaching beyond the denticulated portion of the superiors ; hamule
not exceeding the genital lobe ; vulvar lamina shorter than the
segment upon which it lies, excised within ; wings hyaline ; base
of the anterior ones hardly yellow, posterior ones with the basal
third fuscous, veined with yellow, the middle of the anal margin
having a hyaline spot ; pterostigraa small, fuscous ; membranule
144 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
white ; twelve antecubitals ; seven postcubitals ; four discoidal
areolets.
Length 52 raillim. Alar expanse 90 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Carolina; New Jersey; Georgia; Florida; Cuba; Gua-
deloupe ; St. Thomas ; the specimens from the Antilles which I
saw were very much mutilated ; they may perhaps belong to T.
onusta.
2. T. chinensis !
Libellula chinensis De Geer, Mem. Ill, 556 ; pi. XXVI, fig. 1. Burm.
Handb. II, 852, 27. Libellula Virginia Ramb. ! Neuropt. 33, 2.
Rufo-fuscous ; front above; and the apex of the vertex, brassy-
purple ; feet black ; abdomen having the three apical segments
with a dorsal, broad, black band ; superior appendages of the male
black, as long asthjejhr.ee apical segments ; inferior appendage short,
acute, reaching beyond the denticulated portion of the superiors ;
hamule longly exceeding the genital lobe ; vulvar lamina shorter
than the segment upon which it lies, excised within; wings hyaline,
the superior ones yellow at base; basal fourth of the posterior ones
fuscous, veined with yellow, not attaining the anterior margin, sur-
rounded with yellow; the anal margin with a large yellowish hyaline
spot upon the middle ; pterostigma small, fuscous ; membranule
white ; twelve antecubitals ; nine postcubitals ; four discoidal are-
olets.
Length 53 millim. Alar expanse 104 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Jffab. China (De Geer); Madras (Burm.); Carolina (Vienna
Museum) ; Virginia (Pvambur).
3. T. onusta!
Tramea onusta Hagen.
Very much like T. Carolina, but smaller ; differs, in having front
and vertex hardly obscurer ; the superior appendages of the male
a little longer ; the inferior appendage just reaching to the denti-
culated portion of the superiors, the hamule long, exceeding the
genital lobe ; the vulvar lamina of the same length as the segment
upon which it lies ; base of the posterior wings less dilated, the
basal, fuscous spot smaller, not attaining to the anterior margin of
th^ving, divided in front, and irregular exteriorly, the anal margin
TRAMEA. 145
with a large, hyaline spot; the pterostigma longer; twelve ante-
cubitals ; nine postcubitals ; four discoidal areolets.
Length 43 — 47 millim. Alar expanse 78 — 90 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope) ; Matamoras,
Mexico.
I possess males with the fuscous spot of the wings almost like
that of T. Carolina, but they are not a different species.
I have a female from North America? very much mutilated,
without head or abdomen, of the size of T. onusta, but the wings
are narrower, the basal spot of the wings small and entire. Per-
haps it is a different species.
4. T. lacerata !
Tramea lacerata Hagen !
Brownish-black; labrum black (J1), or margined with black(9);
face lurid, front superiorly shining violet, vertex shining violet ( J*),
or yellow in front (9); thorax with a violet tinge; base of the
abdomen sometimes pruinose, the seventh segment above with a
quadrangular, yellowish-green spot(J'), or with double lines upon
segments 2 to 5, replaced upon segments 6 and 7 by a large, quad-
rangular, posteriorly narrowed spot, yellowish-green ; feet black ;
superior appendages very long, slender ; hamule short, not reach-
ing as far as the genital lobe ; vulvar lamina half the length of the
segment upon which it lies, excised within and at the apox ; ante-
rior wings with two fuscous, basal spots, posterior wings with a
broad, basal, fuscous band, which is ragged exteriorly, and very
deeply einarginated interiorly; pterostigma long, brownish-black;
membranule snow-white; ten antecubitals; nine postcubitals; four
discoidal areolets.
Length 44 — 49 millim. Alar expanse 84 — 94 millim. Ptero-
stigma 4 millim.
Hal). Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope) ; Matamoras,
Mexico; Maryland (Uhler).
5. T. abdominalis !
Libellula abdominalis Ramb. ! Neuropt. 37, 8. — Libellula basalis Selys!
Poey, Ins. Cuba, 441.
Rufo-fuscous, front and vertex rufo-fuscous ; feet black ; three
apical segments of the- abdomen with a black, dorsal fascia ; supe-
10
146 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
.
rior appendages of the male fuscous, rufous at base, as long as the
two apical segments ; the inferior appendage extending a little
farther than the denticulated portion of the superiors ; hamule
exceeding the genital lobe ; vulvar lamina as long as the segment
upon which it is placed, excised ; posterior wings with a narrow
fuscous band, veined with yellow, not attaining the anterior mar-
gin ; the anal margin with a very small hyaline spot ; pterostigma
short, brownish-black ; membranule white ; twelve antecubitals ;
ten postcubitals ; four discoidal areolets.
Length 46 rnillini. Alar expanse 86 millirn. Pterostigma 2|
millim.
Ha b. Mexico ; Guadeloupe ; Cuba (Poey).
X,
6. T. insularis !
Tramea insularis Hagen !
Rufo-fuscous ; middle of the labrum, front above, and the apex
of the vertex, brassy-purple ; feet black, base of the femora rufous;
the two anteapical segments of the abdomen above with a black
band ; superior appendages of the male long, rufo-fuscous, the base
rufous, as long as the three apical segments of the abdomen ; infe-
rior appendage short, reaching a little beyond the denticulated
portion of the superiors ; hamule shorter than the genital lobe ;
vulvar lamina of the length of the segment upon which it lies,
excised, rounded at the apex; wings partly veined with rufous, the
posterior ones with a narrow, fuscous band at base, which is veined
with yellow, and does not attain to the anterior margin; the anal
margin with an oblong, hyaline spot ; pterostigma short, fulvous ;
membranule white ; twelve antecubitals ; nine postcubitals ; four
discoidal areolets.
Length 45 millim. Alar expanse 80 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hab. Cuba (Poey).
7. T. simplex!
Libellula simplex Ramb. Neuropt. 121, 128. Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba,
452.
Rufo-fuscous; front and vertex brassy-purple; thorax pruinose
above (adult male), the sides obscurely marked with black ; feet
nigro-fuscous, base of the femora rufescent ; three apical segments
ofivthe abdomen above with a black band; superior appendages
CELITHEMIS. 147
of the male hardly as long as the two apical segments of the abdo-
men, black, the base hardly rufous ; the inferior appendage ex-
tending beyond the denticulated portion of the superiors; hamule
shorter than the genital lobe ; vulvar lamina extremely short,
excised ; wings with rufous veins, the posterior ones with a nar-
row, fuscous, anal band, veined with yellow, not attaining to the
front margin, the anal margin with an oblong, hyaline spot ; pte-
rostigrna short, nigro-fuscous ; membranule white; 8 — 10 ante-
cubitals ; T — 8 postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 38 millim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey) ; Tampico, Mexico (Saussure).
The specimen described by Rambur is smaller, and may be dis-
tinct. Lib. marcella Selys 1. c. from Brazil, is of the same size as
the specimens described by me ; perhaps the same species.
CELITHEMIS HAGEN.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the prothorax
broad, excised in the middle ; abdomen shorter than the wings,
slender, compressed, trigonal, the base a little thicker, segments 2
and 3 with transverse sutures; feet long, slender; base of the
posterior wings a little dilated ; pterostigma oblong, long ; the
first sector of the triangle sinuated; triangle broad; caudal ap-
pendages short ; genital organs of the male hardly prominent ;
hamule two-parted ; vulva disclosed, the segment following it
carinated beneath, bituberculated.
1. C. eponina!
Libellula eponina Drury, Ins. II, 86 ; pi. xlvii, fig. 2. Fab. But. Syst.
II, 382, 39. Coquebert, Icon. 27, pi. vii, fig. 1. Burm. Handb. II,
853,30. Ramb. Neuropt. 45, 20. Selys! Poey Ins. Cuba, 442. Oliv.
Enc. Meth. VII, 572, 19. Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 24, 11.—
Libellula Camilla Ramb.! Neuropt. 46, 21. — Libellula lucilla Ramb.!
Neuropt. 46, 22.
Reddish-yellow; labium pale; thorax yellow, with a medial,
fuscous stripe anteriorly ; the sides with two lines, and a third,
intermediate, abrupt one, brassy-black ; feet black, base of the
femora yellowish ; abdomen yellow, dorsum each side with a
148 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
broad, longitudinal, black stripe, beneath pale; superior append-
ages of the male short, yellow ; inferior one triangular, acute, a
little shorter than the superiors ; vulva uncovered, the margin re-
curved, excised in the middle ; wings yellowish, veined with yel-
low; anterior ones with a basal spot, two bands and the apex,
posterior ones with a basal double spot, two bands, the internal
one mostly divided, and the apex, fusco-rufous ; pterostigma ful-
vous or yellow ; membranule white ; ten antecubitals ; nine post-
cubitals ; five discoidal areolets, or an irregular number.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob. Boston; Maryland (Uhler) ; New Jersey; Pennsylvania;
Kentucky; Carolina; Indiana; Georgia; St. Louis; New Orleans;
Pensacola ; Cuba.
2. C. superba!
Celithemis superba Hagen !
Black; mouth and front black, front obsoletely yellow above;
thorax black, dorsum scabrous, each side obsoletely marbled with
yellow; feet black, exteriorly lineated with yellow; abdomen
black, the middle segments each side with an oblique, obsolete,
yellow line; appendages black; vulvar lamina erect, triangular,
excavated, acute; wings hyaline, a broad, fenestrated, middle band,
the apical margin narrowly, dentated posteriorly, fuscous ; ante-
cubital veins of the second space marked with fuscous, triangles
with a fuscous spot, which is smaller upon the anterior wings, and
the posterior wings with a basal, fuscous spot at the hind margin ;
pterostigma large, fuscous, the exterior half white, surrounded
with fuscous ; membranule white ; ten antecubitals ; six postcubi-
tals ; 3 — 4 discoidal areolets, at the triangle 4 or 5.
Length 34 — 31 millim. Alar expanse 62 — 66 millim. Ptero-
stigma 4^ millim.
Hob. Oaxaca, Mexico (Collection of Sommer) ; a male from
Tampico (Saussure).
The fuscous bands and spots are broader in the male. A pecu-
liar and most beautiful species ; it differs from C. eponina, in
having the posterior lobe of the prothorax small, rounded, the
triangle narrow, the base of the hind wings not dilated.
PLATHEMIS. 149
PLATHEMIS HAGEN.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the pro-
thorax small, entire ; the abdomen short, broad, depressed ; the
legs stout, short; pterostigma long, oblong; the first sector of the
triangle sinuated ; the triangle narrow, long ; caudal appendages
short ; genital organs of the male rather- prominent ; the first ab-
dominal segment, beneath, with a large, prominent fork ; vulva
disclosed, the segment following it excavated in the middle, bitu-
berculated ; the eighth segment in the female dilated at the sides.
1. P. trimaculata !
Libellula trimaculata De Geer, Mem. Ill, 556, 2; pi. xxvi, fig. 23. Fab.
Ent. Syst. II, 374, 5. Burm.! Handb. II, 861, 78. Ramb.! Neuropt.
52, 28.— Libellula lydia Drury, Ins. I, 112 ; pi. xlvii, fig. 4. Say
Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 20, 5. (Male.)
Rufescent; thorax each side with two oblique, yellowish stripes;
abdomen of the male pruinose, female with lateral oblique, yellow
spots, margined with fuscous; feet black, base of the femora rufes-
cent; wings hyaline, a basal, longitudinal stripe, which is margined
iuferiorly with lacteous on the posterior wings, and a very broad
band upon the middle (J*), or with the basal stripe, a spot upon
the middle anteriorly, and the apex (9), fuscous; pterostigma
fuscous ; membranule white ; twelve antecubitals ; nine postcubi-
tals ; four discoidal areolets.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hob. It is found from Maine to- Florida, and from Texas to
Minnesota ; also iu North California. A common species.
2. P. subornata!
Plathemis subornata Hagen !
Brownish-black, thorax with a stripe each side above, and the
sides with two very oblique yellow stripes ; feet black ; abdomen
with a broad, maculose stripe each side, on the dorsum and broader
ones on the venter, yellow (in the male it is wanting towards the
apex); wings hyaline, a basal, fenestrated streak, and two angulose
bands, the one nodal, the other pterostigmatical, fuscous; ptero-
150 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
stigma narrow, fuscous ; membranule white. The adult male has
the bands of the wings joined together with fulvous ; twelve ante-
cubitals ; nine postcubitals ; four discoidal areolets.
Length 42 millim. Alar expanse 7,0 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hcib. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
"An adult male, in my collection (from the same locality), has
the thoracic stripes wanting, and with merely yellowish spots at
the origin of the anterior legs ; the labium has a large, square,
blue-black, middle band, and the labrum is entirely black, the
upper part of the front is blackish. A similar, mutilated male, is
in the Smithsonian Collection, labelled ' San Diego trip.' " —
Uhler.
LIBELLULA
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the pro-
thorax small, entire ; abdomen stout, rotundo-triquetral, sensibly
narrowing posteriorly; feet long, stout; pterostigma oblong, large;
the first sector of the triangle sinuated; triangle narrow, long ;
appendages short; genital organs of the male hardly prominent ;
vulva disclosed, the segment following it carinated in the middle
and bituberculated.
1. L. quadrimaculata !
Libellula quadrimaculata Linne ! Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 901, 1. Fab. Burm.
Ramb. Selys, Revue des Odonat. 7, 2 (with synoiiomy). — Libellula
quadripunctata Fab.! Eutorn. Syst. II, 375, 5. — Libellula ternaria Say,
£ Jour. Acad. Pkilad. VIII, 21, 7.
Reddish-yellow, villose ; front pale, above terminated with black ;
sides of the thorax yellowish, liueated with black ; feet black ; ab-
domen attenuated at the apex, fuscous behind, the sides yellow ;
superior appendages of the male black, very long ; wings at base
anteriorly, yellow, a costal spot and sometimes an apical one, the
posterior wings with a triangular spot at base, reddish-black,
veined with yellow ; pterostigma brownish-black ; membrauule
white ; sixteen antecubitals ; fourteen postcubitals ; four discoidal
areolets.
Length 48 millim. Alar expanse 80 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
LIBELLULA. 151
Hal. Lake Michigan, Wisconsin. It migrates in immense flocks
(Dr. Hoy); Canada; Massachusetts (Scudder) ; Europe; Asia;
Siberia ; Kamtschatka.
Common everywhere that it occurs. The male L. ternaria Say,
from Massachusetts, certainly belongs to this species. The female
of that species belongs to the following.
2. L. semifasciata !
Libellula semifasciata Bnrm.l Handb. II, 862, 80. — Lib. maculata Rainb.!
Neuropt. 55, 31. — Libellula ternaria Say ( 9 ), Journ. Acad. Philad.
VIII, 21, 7. -
Reddish-yellow, villose ; front lurid, above terminated with
black ; sides of the thorax obliquely twice marked with yellow ; feet
black, femora yellowish rufous ; apex of the abdomen attenuated,
the dorsura with apical, triangular, fuscous spots, and lateral
brighter yellow ones ; superior appendages of the male short,
blackish fuscous; base of the wings yellowish, a basal, longitudinal
stripe, which is sometimes double upon the posteriors, an abrupt
band upon the middle and a pterostigmatical band, sometimes
also the apex fuscous; pterostigma large, rufo-fuscous ; membra-
nule white; fourteen antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; four, or some-
times three discoidal areolets.
Length 37 — 45 millim. Alar expanse 66 — 77 millini. Ptero-
stigma 5 millim.
Hab. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland (Uhler); New
York, Savannah, Georgia ; Carolina, Florida (Osten Sacken).
3. L. nodisticta!
Libellula nodisticta Hagen !
Fulvous, clothed with white hair ; front pale, brassy-fuscous
above, terminated with black; dorsum of the thorax incanous, each
side fuscous, sides pale with four sulphur spots ; feet black, base
of the femora fuscous; apex of the abdomen attenuated, fulvous,
with a broad dorsal, black stripe ; appendages short, black ; wings
hyaline, a basal fascia and a nodal point, black ; pterostigma nar-
row, black ; rnembranule white. Male.
Thirteen antecubitals; nine postcubitals; four discoidal areolets.
Length 47 millim. Alar expanse 77 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hab. Mexico (Saussure). it is allied to Lib. quadri maculata.
152 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
4. L. saturata !
Libellula saturata Uhler, Proceed. Acad. Philad. 1857, 88, 4.
Reddish-yellow, villose ; feet rufous ; abdomen stout, the apex
narrowed ; wings hyaline, the anterior margin and basal half yel-
lowish-rufous ; a basal streak, especially to the posteriors, fusco-
rufous ; of the female hyaline, with the anterior margin flavescent;
pterostigma small, fulvous ; membranule black ; twenty-one ante-
cubitals ; fifteen postcubitals ; five discoidal areolets.
Length 52 millini. Alar expanse 90 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hob. California, " San Diego trip," Mexico (Collection of
Hagen) ; Cordova ; Tampico (Saussure).
5. L. luctuosa!
Libdlula luctuosa Burm.! Handb. II, 861, 76. — Libellula basalis Say,
Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 23, 10. _
Brownish-black ; front dark metallic blue (adult male) ; thorax
with a dorsal yellow stripe, sides brown, marked with fuscous, or
brownish-black, pruinose above (adult male) ; feet black, or with
the femora rufo-fuscous (9); abdomen brownish-black, dorsurn
and venter each side, with a broad yellow stripe, or brownish-
black, pruinose above (adult male) ; appendages short, black ;
wings hyaline, the basal half blackish-fuscous, the apex sometimes
clouded with fuscous, the middle baud in the males broadly mar-
gined with milky-white ; pterostigma black ; membranule gray.
Var. Base of the anterior wings shortly or slightly blackish-
fuscous, a basal streak blackish-fuscous. 9 .
15 — 19 antecubitals ; 12 — IT postcubitals ; four discoidal are-
olets.
Length 38 — 45 millim. Alar expanse 13 — 84 millim. Ptero-
stigma 4£ millim.
Hob. Pennsylvania ; New Jersey ; New York ; Maryland (Uh-
ler); Chicago; Washington (Osten Sacken).
6. L. odiosa!
Libellula odiosa Hagen !
Entirely brassy-black, or, excepting the front, medial thoracic
vitta, and each side of the abdomen, which are yellow ; base of
the femora rufous (? teneral) ; wings hyaline, the basal half fus-
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cous, the immediate base paler; female with the apex of the wings
subinfuscated ; pterostigma black; membranule gray; eighteen
antecubitals ; fourteen postcubitals; five or four cliscoidal areolets.
Length 4T millira. Alar expanse 85 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Jfab. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
Similar to Lib. luctuosa, but the body is more robust, the spot
at the base of the wings is clearer, or fenestrated. The wings of
the female are also a little narrower.
7. L. julia!
Libellula julia Uliler! Proc. Acad. Philad. 1857, 88, 5.
Fuscous, villose ; front lurid ; thorax gray above, each side
nigro-fuscous, the sides brown ; feet black, base of the femora
rufous ; apex of the abdomen attenuated, apex of the dorsum fus-
cous, the sides with yellowish spots ; appendages short, yellowish-
rufous; wings hyaline, a small line at base, and a triangular spot
behind the line at base, upon the posteriors, fuscous ; pterostigma
narrow, fuscous ; membranule white. (Male.)
Fifteen antecubitals; twelve postcubitals; three discoidal are-
olets.
Length 42 millim. Alar expanse 72 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Fort Steilacoom, Puget Sound, Washington Territory;
Wisconsin (Dr. Hoy). This is the North American analogue of
the European Lib. fulva, and belongs to the same group ; the
colors are defaced by alcohol.
8. L. pulchella !
Libellula pulchella Drury, Ins. I, 115 ; pi. xlviii, fig. 5. Ramb.! Neuropt.
54, 30. Duncan, Introduct. 292, pi. xxix, fig. 2. — Libellula versicolor
Fab.! Ent. Syst. II, 380, 29 £ ; Syst. Ent. 423, 17; Sp. Ins. I, 523,
22 ; Mant. Ins. I, 337, 23.— Libellula bifasciata Fab.! Syst. Ent. 421,
3 9 ; Sp. Ins. I, 520, 3 ; Mant. Ins. I, 336, 3 ; Ent. Syst. II, 374, 4.
Burm.! Handb. II, 862, 81 ; Blanch. Hist. Ins. 58, 9. Say, Journ.
Acad. Philad. VIII, 20, 6.— Libellula confusa Uhler! Proc. Acad.
Philad. 1857, 87, 3 (teneral). —
Fuscous, villose ; dorsum of the thorax grayish-fuscous, sides
with two. oblique yellow marks ; abdomen stout, the apex attenu-
ated, fuscous, each side with a yellow stripe, or pruinose (g
adult); feet black, or with the base of the femora rufous (9);
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wings hyaline, a broad, basal, longitudinal stripe, an abrupt,
medial band, and the apex, rufo-fuscous ; the males with two
alternate spots, and a spot at the anal angle of the posterior wings,
milky-white ; pterostigma large, black ; membranule white ; six-
teen antecubitals ; thirteen postcubitals ; four discoidal areolets.
Length 48 — 52 millim. Alar expanse 86 — 90 millini. Ptero-
stigma 6 millim.
Hob. New York ; New Jersey ; Philadelphia : Boston ; Balti-
more (Uhler); Texas; Mississippi (Edwards).
9. L. forensis !
Libellula forensis Hagen !
Rufo-fuscous, villose ; front lurid, above brassy-black ; dorsuni
of the thorax pruinose, the sides fuscous, each side binotated with
yellow ; feet black ; abdomen stout, the apex attenuated, rufous,
the base pruinose, the apex fuscous, sides spotted with yellow,
venter fuscous, spotted with yellow; wings hyaline, a broad basal
stripe, and a broad nodal band, rufo-fuscous ; two alternating
spots, and the anal part of the posteriors milky-white; pterostigma
moderate, black ; membranule white. Male.
Fourteen antecubitals ; twelve postcubitals ; four discoidal are-
olets.
Length 47 millim. Alar expanse 78 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hab. California (Berlin Museum).
10. L. deplanata !
Libellula dtplanata Ramb.! Neuropt. 75, 61. — Libellula exusta Say, Jour.
Acad. Philad. VIII, 29, 18.
Rufo-fuscous, villose ; front luteous, vertex fuscous ; the thorax
rufous in front, with two yellow stripes, margined exteriorly with
fuscous; feet fuscous; the abdomen short, triquetral, rufous, a
dorsal stripe and the margins and sutures blackish-fuscous ; wings
hyaline, anterior ones with two lines at the base, posterior ones
with a triangular spot at base, divided with yellow, rufo-fuscous ;
pterostigma small, fulvous; membranule whitish; twelve antecu-
bitals ; nine postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 32 millim. Alar expanse 56 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
- Hal). Georgia; Massachusetts (Say). I am not quite sure
Whether it belongs to this genus.
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L. exusta Say, differs in having twelve to thirteen postcubital
cross-nervules ; it may be a different species.
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(The females have the sides of the eighth abdominal segment dilated.)
Species 11 — 17.
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11. L. auripennis ! (
Libellula auripennis Burm.l Handb. II, 861, 77. — Libellula costalis Ramb.!
Neuropt. 59, 36.
Reddish-yellow; thorax red, or with a middle, dorsal yellow
stripe (teneral); feet reddish; abdomen long, slender, triquetral,
reddish-yellow, a dorsal stripe, lost anteriorly, black ; wings sub-
furnose, veined with yellow; the anterior margin flavescent ; the
apex sometimes infuscated ; pterostigma large, yellow or red ;
membranule black; 15 — 18 antecubitals; 11 — 15 postcubitals ;
four discoidal areolets.
Length 48 — 56 millim. Alar expanse 76 — 85 millim. Ptero-
stigma 6 millim.
Hob. ]STew Jersey (Guex) ; Maryland (Uhler) ; ]STew York ;
Ohio ; Savannah, Georgia ; ISTew Orleans, Louisiana ; Florida
(Osteu Sacken).
12. L. incesta !
Libellula incesta Hagen !
Black, pruinose ; labium luteous, front superiorly, brassy-black ;
sides of the thorax paler, pruinose, terminated inferiorly with
black; feet black, base of the femora fuscous; abdomen long,
slender, triquetral, black, pruinose ; wings hyaline, veined with
black, the apex hardly infuscated; pterostigma long, black; mem-
branule cinereous. (Male.)
Fifteen antecubitals ; twelve postcubitals ; three discoidal are-
olets.
Length 54 millim. Alar expanse 84 millim. Pterostigma 6
millim.
Hal. Carolina (Zimmerman).
13. L. lydia !
Libellula lydia Drury, Ins. II, 85 ; pi. xlvii, fig. 1. Ramb. ! Neuropt.
55, 32 ; Oliv. Enc. Meth. VII, 570, 8.— Libellula leda Say, Journ.
Acad. Philad. VIII, 22, 8, var. A.
Reddish-yellow; front whitish; vertex, and labium in the mid-
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die, black; dorsum of the thorax rufous, the median sulcus yellow;
the sides greenish-white, beneath terminated with black ; abdomen
long, narrow, triquetral, yellow, the base greenish-white, a dorsal
stripe, and another each side at base, shorter, and the sutures,
black ; appendages black ; feet black, base of the femora yellow-
ish; wings hyaline, a short basal line, a nodal point, and the apex,
blackish-fuscous; pterostigma large, black; membranule cinereous.
Adult Male. Thorax above, pruinose.
17 — 20 antecubitals ; 15 — 17 postcubitals ; four discoidal are-
olets.
Length 58 — 61 millim. Alar expanse 100 millim. Pterostigma
7 millim.
Hab. New Orleans, Louisiana ; Georgia ; Virginia.
14. L. axillena !
Libellula axillena Westwood. Duncan, Introduct. 292, pi. xxix, fig. 1. —
Libellula lydia Ramb.! Neuropt. 55, 32 (in part). — Libellula leda Say,
Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 22, 8.
Similar to Lib. lydia, but differs from it by the male having the
front and labrum black, carbonareous, front metallic-blue above;
of the female, the labium and rhinarium black, the front reddish-
yellow, above metallic-blue ; tip of the vertex yellowish ; feet
black, the base of the femora hardly rufous ; the dorsal stripe of
the abdomen reaching to the thorax ; a stripe upon the anterior
margin of the wings, between the nodus and pterostigma, blackish-
fuscous.
Length 50 — 60 millim. Alar expanse 80 — 92 millim. Ptero-
stigma 6 — 7 millim.
Hab. Georgia ; New Orleans, Louisiana ; Florida (Osten
Sacken).
Is it a variety of L. lydia ?
15. L. flavida !
Libellula flavida Ramb.! Neuropt. 58,35.
Reddish-yellow ; mouth, front and tip of the vertex, pale yellow ;
thorax rufous anteriorly, the median sulcus yellowish ; the sides
yellowish-white, with an oblique fuscous stripe ; abdomen long,
triquetral, yellow; a dorsal stripe, another at base, each side, and
the sutures, brownish-black ; the inferior appendage pale ; feet
black, anterior femora yellowish beneath ; wings hyaline, the ante-
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rior margin flavescent, the base hardly rufescent, the apex sub-
infuscated ; pterostigma large, bicolored, yellow, exteriorly fuscous;
membranule gray.
Adult Mule. Thorax and abdomen brownish-black, wings hardly
flavescent anteriorly.
Fifteen antecubitals ; eleven postcubitals ; four discoidal areolets.
Length 48 — 52 millirn. Alar expanse 84 — 88 millini. Ptero-
stigma 6 millim.
Hub. Pecos River, "Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
16. L. quadrupla!
Libellula quadrupla Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 23, 9. — Libellula
bistigma Uhler ! Proc. Acad. Philad. 1857, 87, 1. Adult male.
Reddish-yellow ; mouth and front yellowish, vertex fuscous ;
thorax anteriorly rufous, the median suknfs yellowish ; sides pale
yellow, with an interrupted, oblique, fuscous stripe ; feet black,
base of the femora luteous ; abdomen triquetral, luteous, with a
broad dorsal stripe, anteriorly absent, brownish-black ; wings hya-
line, the anterior margin, especially at the apex, flavescent, the
base with a brownish-black streak ; the apex sometimes infuscated ;
pterostigma large, broader in the middle, bicolored, yellow, exte-
riorly black ; membranule black.
Adult Male. Thorax and abdomen nigro-fuscous, altogether
pruinose, mouth, front, and the vertex black, wings sometimes
hyaline anteriorly.
13 — 15 antecubitals; 9 — 11 postcubitals; three discoidal are-
olets.
Length 40 — 46 millim. Alar expanse 70 — 76 millim. Ptero-
stigma 5 millim.
Hob. Baltimore (Uhler); Massachusetts; New Jersey; Mary-
land.
May this not be Lib. cyanea Fab. ? (compare South American
Neuroptera.)
17. L. plumbea!
Libellula plumbea Uliler ! Proc. Acad. Philad. 1857, 87, 2.
Rufo-fuscous ; mouth and front brassy-black, margined with
yellow (J"), or luteo-fuscous (9); vertex fuscous; thorax in front
fuscous, pruinose (J1), or rufous, with the median sulcus yellow-
ish (9), sides yellowish-white, with an interrupted, oblique, fuscous
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stripe ; abdomen triquetral, fuscous, pruinose, beneath yellowish ( g ),
or rufous, a dorsal, brownish-black stripe, absent anteriorly ( 9 );
feet black, femora partly rufescent; wings hyaline, the anterior
margin entirely flavescent, a basal, not well terminated, fuscous
streak, and the apex (in the female) also fuscous ; pterostigrna
large, rufous ; mernbranule whitish ; sixteen anteeubitals ; twelve
postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 46 millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. Pterostigrna 6
millim.
Hob. Baltimore, Maryland ; New Jersey (Uhler) ; Carolina.
18. L. funerea!
Libellula funerea Hagen !
Male Adult. Black ; mouth and front brassy-black ; feet black,
the four posterior tibise yellow exteriorly; abdomen slender, trique-
tral, black ; the appendages yellow ; wings blackish-fuscous ; the
apex, and base of the anterior ones hyaline ; pterostigma large,
black, membranule black. Teneral male and the female approach-
ing a yellow color, the mouth and front yellowish ; thorax yellow,
the dorsum each side, iufuscated ; feet lurid ; abdomen yellowish,
the dorsum and sides subinfuscated; the wings somewhat yellowish,
the apex hyaline, the apical margin infuscated ; pterostigma pale ;
twelve antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 50 millim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 5
millim.
Hab. Mexico.
19. L. umbrata!
Libellula umbrata Linne, Syst. Nat. 903, 13 ; Fab. Syst. Ent. 422, 14 ;
Sp. Ins. I, 522, 18 ; Mant. Ins. I, 337, 18 ; Ent. Syst. II, 378, 21 ;
Burm. Handb. II, 856, 48. Rarub. ! Neuropt. 73, 58. Selys ! Poey,
Ins. Cuba, 448. — Libellula unifasciata De Geer, Mem. Ill, 557, 3 ;
pi. xxvi, fig. 4. — Libellula fallax Burm. ! Handb. II, 855, 45 (tene-
ral). — Libellula subfadata Burm.! Handb. II, 855, 46 (male teneral).
— Libellula tripartita Burm.! Handb. II, 856, 47 (male adult). — Li-
bellula ruralis Burm.! Handb. II, 856, 49 (female). — Libellula flam-
cans Ramb. ! Neuropt. 87, 79 (female).
Male teneral, and Female. Olivaceous, mouth and front flave-
scent ; dorsum of the thorax obsoletely varied with fuscous ; feet
fuscous, femora partly yellowish ^ abdomen olivaceous, a dorsal
stripe, almost absent anteriorly, and the apex of segments 4 — 10,
20.
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brownish-black ; appendages yellowish ; wings hyaline, the apex
snbfuscous, base of the posterior ones ochraceous ; pterostigma
large, fulvous ; merabranule fuscous.
Male Adult. Mouth and front steel-blue ; body nigro-fuscous,
with a violet tinge, pruinose ; wings with a broad, blackish-fuscous
band, between the nodus and pterostigma ; pterostigma brownish-
black, the base of the posterior ones rufo-fuscous ; the apex of
each, often hyaline; 11 — 13 antecubitals ; 9 — 12 postcubitals ;
three discoidal areolets.
Length 38 — 47 millim. Alar expanse 56 — 72 niillim. Ptero-
stigma 4 — 5 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot), a single male in Hagen's collection;
Matamoras, Mexico, a single male in Hagen's collection ; Cuba
(Poey) ; Martinique ; St. Thomas ; Barbadoes ; Porto Cabello,
Venezuela ; Surinam, Essequibo, Guiana ; Bahia, Rio, Brazil ;
Buenos Ayres. An extremely common species in tropical South
America.
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20. L. angustipennis !
Libdlula angustipennis Ramb. Neuropt. 63, 42 ; Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba,
p. 446.
Yellowish-red ; front pale, steel-blue above ; thorax fuscous, dor-
sum with three lines, the sides with two stripes and two lines, yel-
low ; abdomen triquetral, toward the apex narrower, fuscous,
dorsum with three yellow streaks ; the female has the eighth seg-
ment dilated at the sides ; feet blackish-fuscous, the anterior fe-
mora yellowish beneath ; wings hyaline, narrow, the apex subin-
fuscated; pterostigma long, fuscous; membranule cinereous; fifteen
antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 68 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hab. Cuba (Poey). Does it belong to this genus ?
21. L. vibex!
Libellida vibex Hagen !
Brownish-black ; labium yellow, with a triangular spot in the
middle ; front yellowish, chalybeous above ; thorax black, dorsum
with a yellow stripe in the middle ; sides with two stripes, and two
lines, yellow ; feet black, anterior femora yellowish beneath ; abdo-
men triquetral, black, slender, almost equal, the base with a short,
160 NEUROPTER A OF NORTH AMERICA.
dorsal stripe, and the sides obsoletely yellow ; wings hyaline, nar-
row ; pterostigma long, black ; membranule blackish-gray. (Male.)
Fifteen antecubitals ; ten postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 69 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob. Cordova (Saussure).
It is most like Libellula angustipennis, but the posterior lobe of
the prothorax is shorter, not rounded, and the external hamule is
narrower, divided.
Subgenus Orthemis HAGEN.
The first sector of the triangle straight; the abdomen broad,
depressed; female having the sides of the eighth segment dilated;
pterostigma large.
22. O. discolor!
Libellula discolor Burm. ! Handb. II, 856, 51. — Libellula macrostigma
Rambur ! Neuropt. 57, 54. Selys ! Poey, Ins. Cuba, 447. — Libellula
ferruginea Fab. Syst. Entom. 423, 19. Sp. Ins. I, 523, 25. (Not of
Entom. Systemat.)
Rufous or blue, pruinose (adult male), labium yellowish, fuscous
in the middle ; thorax with the dorsal sulcus yellow, each side with
four yellow lines ; feet rufous, the femora in part paler ; abdomen
rufous, a dorsal stripe, and each side at base yellowish ; wings hya-
line, the apex sometimes infuscated ; pterostigma large, fuscous ;
membranule black.
Var. Thorax and abdomen with no yellow stripes.
16 — 19 antecubitals ; 13 — 15 postcubitals ; three discoidal are-
olets.
Length 48 — 55 millim. Alar expanse 70 — 95 millim. Ptero-
stigma 7 millim.
Hob. Western Texas ; Matamoras, Tampico, Mexico ; Cuba ;
Martinique; San Domingo; Guadaloupe; St. Thomas; Porto
Rico; St. Croix; Jamaica; Porto Cabello, Venezuela ; Surinam,
Guiana; Chili; Equador; Guayaquil; Rio, Minas Geraes, Bahia,
Pernambuco, Brazil. A most common species.
LEPTHEMIS HAGEN.
Eyes very slightly connected ; posterior lobe of the prothorax
large, bilobed; abdomen long, almost longer than the wings, nar-
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row, slender, equal, triquetral, the base vesicle-like, compressed ;
feet long, stout ; the first sector of the triangle sinuated ; the tri-
angle narrow, short; appendages short; male genital organs hardly
prominent ; the vulva obtected, the segment following it carinated
in the middle, bituberculated ; the sides of the eighth segment of
the female entire.
1. Lep. vesiculosa!
Libellula vesiculosa Fab. Syst. Ent. 421, 7 ; Sp. Ins. I, 521, 9 ; Mant. Ins.
1,336,9; Entom. Syst. II, 377, 12. Burm.I Handb. II, 857, 54.
Ramb.! Neuropt. 50, 26. Selys! Poey, Ins. Cuba, 443. Libellula
acuta Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 24, 12.
Yellowish-green ; head and thorax uniform in color; feet black;
femora yellowish-green, lineated above and below with black ; ab-
domen yellowish-green, the base immaculate, lineated and margined
with black, segments 3 to 6 with quadrangular, apical, blackish-
fuscous spots ; appendages yellowish ; wings narrow, hyaline, base
of the posterior ones subochraceous ; pterostigma long, yellowish;
membranule black; sixteen antecubitals ; twelve postcubitals; three
discoidal areolets.
Length 53 — 63 millim. Alar expanse 74 — 90 millim. Ptero-
stigma 5 millim.
Hab. Mataraoras, Mexico; Cuba; St. Domingo; St. Thomas;
Guiana ; Bahia, Rio, Pernambuco, Brazil.
2. Lep. haematogastra !
Libellula hsematogastra Burm. ! Handb. II, 837, 55.
Red ; labiuni yellowish, with a middle, black stripe ; front brassy-
fuscous (J*) ; feet black, the femora red within ; abdomen red, or
with the sutures and the apex of the segments fuscous ( 9 ) ; ap-
pendages red ; wings hyaline, the base of the posterior ones with
a fuscous spot ; pterostigma red ; vulvar lamina triangular, re-
curved; 14 — 15 antecubitals; twelve postcubitals; three discoidal
areolets.
Length 45 — 50 millim. Alar expanse 70 — 74 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3^ — 4 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot ; Zurich Museum) ; Surinam ; Pernam-
buco, Brazil.
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3. Lep. verbenata!
Lepthemis verbenata Hagen !
Luteous ; mouth fuscous, sides of the labium pale ; dorsum of
the thorax luteous, each side fuscous ; feet black, the femora partly
luteous ; abdomen luteous, the sutures and margins, the apex of
segments 4 to T, and 8 — 9 entirely fuscous ; appendages luteous ;
vulvar lamina triangular, recurved ; wings hyaline, the posterior
ones with a basal, fulvous spot, which is veined with fuscous ; pte-
rostigma luteous ; membranule black.
Male Adult. Entirely blackish-fuscous, appendages luteous ;
spot of the base of the posterior wings, blackish-fuscous.
12 — 14 antecubitals ; 10 — 12 postcubitals; three discoidal are-
olets.
Length 43 — 48 millim. Alar expanse 66 — 74 raillim. Ptero-
stigma 4 millim.
Hab. Cuba (Poey) ; Porto Cabello, Venezuela ; Surinam ; Brazil.
DYTHEMIS HAGEX.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the protho-
rax small, entire ; abdomen a little shorter than the wings, slender,
triquetral, the base a little inflated, compressed, the apex a little
broadened ; feet long, slender ; the first sector of the triangle a
little sinuated ; the triangle moderate, narrow ; appendages short ;
genital organs a little prominent ; vulva disclosed, the lamina ernar-
ginated, the segment following it carinated, bituberculated ; sides
of the eighth segment of the female entire.
1. D. rufinervis !
Libellula rufinervis Burm.! Handb. II, 815, 15. — Libellula conjuncta
Ramb.! Neuropt. 91, 84. Selys! Poey, Ins. Cuba, 444.
Reddish-yellow ; mouth and front yellowish-red ; dorsum of the
thorax rufo-fuscous, or each side with an obsolete yellow line ( 9 ) ;
sides yellowish, four-striped with black ; feet black, or with the
femora partly luteous (9) ; abdomen slender, reddish-yellow, the
incisures, a basal and lateral stripe, and a dorsal streak each side
upon segments 8 and 9, black ; appendages rufous ; wings hya-
line, with red veins, the base yellowish, base of the posterior wings
with two fuscous streaks ; pterostigma rufo-fuscous ; membranule
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black; fifteen antecnbitals ; 8 — 10 postcubitals ; three discoidal
areolets.
Length 39 millim. Alar expanse 65 rnillim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hab. St. Domingo, Port au Prince ; Cuba (Poey).
2. D. velox!
Dythemis velox Hagen !
Brownish-black ; labium and front yellowish-green ; thorax fus-
cous, subaeneous, the dorsum with a middle line, a lateral one each
side, and a transverse one before the wings, yellow ; sides yellow,
with four fuscous stripes; feet black, anterior femora yellow be-
neath ; abdomen slender, the apex thicker, brownish-black, dorsum
of segments 1 — 7 each side with a greenish-yellow spot, that of
the seventh segment larger, those of the basal segments double,
the third segment each side yellowish-green ; appendages black ;
wings hyaline, the extreme base rufo-fuscous, the apex fuscous ;
the pterostigma black ; membranule black ; 14 — 16 antecubitals ;
9 — 10 postcubitals; three discoidal areolets.
Length 44 millim. Alar expanse 70 rnillim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hab. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
3. D. fugax!
Dythemis fugax Hagen !
Brownish-black ; mouth and front luteous ; thorax fuscous, or
the dorsum having each side a broader stripe, and transverse streak
before the wings, yellowish-green ; sides yellowish-green, with four
black stripes; feet black; abdomen slender, the apex stouter,
nigro-fuscous, dorsum of the second segment with a trilobed spot,
segments 3 to 6 with a double spot each side, and the seventh with
a larger spot each side, greenish-white ; segments 1 — 7 with a
greenish-white spot each side, laterally; appendages black; wings
hyaline, the extreme apex sometimes infuscated, the base with a
large, fulvous spot, fenestrated with fuscous, and including two
basal, brassy-fuscous streaks, upon all the wings ; pterostigma
black; membranule whitish-gray; 13 — 15 antecubitals; 8 — 9
postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 45 millim. Alar expanse 76 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hab. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
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4. D. mendax !
Dythemis mendax Hagen !
Blackish-fuscous ; mouth and front pale yellow; thorax fuscous,
dorsum each side with a fascia, which is broader at the wings, an-
gulose, greenish-white ; sides greenish-white, with two oblique,
approximate, fuscous stripes ; feet black ; the anterior femora pale
beneath, abdomen slender, a little longer than the wings, the base
compressed, more inflated, the apex stouter ; brownish-black, seg-
ments 1 — 7 with a double spot each side upon the dorsum, green-
ish-white, upon segments 4 — 6 it is almost linear, upon segment 7
posteriorly, a large dilated spot, the sides and venter spotted with
greenish- white ; appendages black ; wings hyaline, the posterior
ones fulvous at the extreme base ; pterostigma small, black ; mem-
branule black ; twelve antecubitals ; eight postcubitals ; two dis-
coidal areolets.
Length 55 — 60 millim. Alar expanse 76 — 86 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 to 3^ millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
I saw a female from Tampico (Saussure) which had the head
chalybeous above : is it different ?
5. D. praecox!
Dythemis praecox Hagen!
Fuscous; mouth pale, the front fusco-aeneous above; dorsum
of the thorax fuscous, a green stripe each side, which is broader
at the wings, angulose ; the sides fuscous, three stripes, the middle
one interrupted, green ; feet black, the femora luteous in part ;
abdomen slender, a little longer than the wings, the base com-
pressed, more inflated, the apex thicker; fuscous, dorsum each
side upon segments 1 — 7, with a double, yellowish spot; upon
segments 4 — 6 the spots almost linear ; upon segment seven a
larger, broader spot posteriorly ; appendages black ; wings fusco-
fumose, fulvous at base; pterostigma small, black; membranule
black. Female.
Twelve antecubitals; seven postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 48 millim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 2£
millim.
Hub. Mexico (Collection of Hagen).
S0,/93-
DYTHEMIS. 165
6. D. frontalis!
Libellulafrontalis Burm.! Handb. II, 857, 56 ; Selys ! Poey, Ins. Cuba, 453.
Black, pruinose ; front white, above greenish-chalybeous ; thorax
pruinose, the dorsuni with a yellowish spot each side, which is not
very clear; feet black, anterior femora pale inside ; abdomen slen-
der, a little shorter than the wings, black, segments 7 to 9 dilatedly
ovate ; appendages black ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma black ;
menibranule black ; fifteen antecubitals ; postcubitals — ? three
discoidal areolets.
Length 44 millim. Alar expanse 73 millim, Pterostigma 2£
millim.
Hob. St. Domingo; Cuba (Collection of De Selys Longchamps).
7. D. pleurosticta !
Libellula pleurosticta Burm.! Haudb. II, 849, 3. — Libellula celaeno Selys!
Poey, Ins. Cuba, 454.
Brownish-black; front whitish, chalybeous above; thorax nigro-
fuscous, dorsum with a stripe each side, which is larger at the
wings, angulose, and an intermediate line, greenish-white; sides
black, each with three larger spots and two smaller ones, greenish-
white ; feet blackish-brown ; abdomen of the length of the wings,
slender, almost equal, black, segments 1 — 8 (or 99) marked upon
the dorsum with a double, linear, greenish-white spot ; appendages
black ; wings hyaline, a basal small streak, almost absent in the
males, fuscous; base of the posterior wings a little fulvous ; ptero-
stigma black; menibranule cinereous ; fourteen autecubitals ; 8 — 10
postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 43 millim. Alar expanse 59 — 64 millim. Pterostigma
2 millim.
Hob. Cuba ; St. Domingo ; St. Thomas ; Brazil.
8. D. didyma !
Libellula didyma Selys. Poey, Ins. Cuba, 453. — Libellula phryne Rarnb.
Neuropt. 121, 27.
Brownish-black ; mouth and front yellowish, front chalybeous
above ; thorax nigro-fuscous, dorsum each side, with an oblique
line, the intermediate sulcus, and a transverse line at the wings,
greenish-yellow; sides greenish-yellow, with three brassy-brown
stripes ; feet black, the anterior femora interiorly partly pale ; the
abdomen a little shorter than the wings, slender, broader before
166 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
the apex, black, segments 1 — 6 with a linear, yellowish spot each
side, the base of the seventh with a larger, twin-spot, greenish-
yellow ; appendages black ; hamules not prominent ; wings hya-
line, the extreme base fulvous ; pterostigma oblong, blackish-
brown ; membranule black.
The female varies by having the abdominal spots larger.
9 — 11 antecubitals ; seven postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 33 — 35 millini. Alar expanse 57 millim. Pterostigma
2^ millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey) ; Matamoras, Mexico ; Tampico (Saussure).
The Mexican specimens are larger, and the stripes and spots
are larger ; perhaps they constitute a distinct species.
9. D. dicrota!
Dythemis dicrota Hagen !
Brownish-black; mouth and front yellowish, front chalybeous
above ; thorax black, dorsum each side with an oblique line, the
intermediate sulcus and a transverse line at the wings, yellowish-
green ; sides greenish-yellow with two brassy-fuscous stripes ;
feet black, the anterior femora beneath partly yellowish; abdomen
a little shorter than the wings, slender, broader before the apex,
black, segments 1 — 6 with a linear spot each side, the seventh
segment with a larger, basal yellowish twin-spot ; appendages
black ; hamules prominent, large, recurved ; wings hyaline, the
extreme base fulvous ; pterostigma oblong, fuscous, membranule
black ; ten antecubitals ; seven postcubitals ; two discoidal areo-
lets.
Length 33 — 36 rnilliin. Alar expanse 53 — 57 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey).
10. D. pertinax!
Dythemis pertinax Hagen !
Nigro-fuscous ; mouth and front pale yellow ; middle of the
labium black ; front above and vertex chalybeous ; thorax blackish-
fuscous,. the dorsum each side with a stripe, which is broader at
the wings, angulose, green ; the sides nigro-fuscous, with two
oblique, green stripes ; feet black, anterior femora at the base
beneath rufous ; abdomen slender, a little longer than the wings,
the base compressed, more inflated, the apex a little stouter ;
DYTHEMIS. 167
black, the base each side with a maculose, green stripe, dorsurn of
the seventh segment each side, with a lanceolate, long, green spot ;
appendages black ; wings hyaline, the anterior margin at base
snbflavescent ; pterostigma small, black ; membranule black.
Male.
Fifteen antecubitals; ten postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 54 millini. Alar expanse 86 millim. Pterostigma 2
raillim.
nab. Mexico (Vienna Museum).
Similar to Libellula nubecula Rambur, but certainly distinct.
11. D. aequalis !
Dythemis aequalis Hagen !
Fuscous; mouth and front whitish-yellow; the vertex, and the
front above, chalybeous ; thorax brassy-fuscous, the dorsum each
side with an oblique streak, middle sulcus, and a transverse line
at the wings, yellow; the sides brassy-fuscous, with three broad,
irregular, yellow stripes ; feet black, the extreme base fuscous ;
abdomen shorter than the wings, slender, broader before the apex,
triquetral, brassy-fuscous, the base each side with a maculose
stripe, and the seventh segment each side with a large, cuneiform,
yellow spot; appendages black; anterior genital lamina each side
with a large, prominent auricle ; the harnule not prominent ; vulvar
lamina large, oval ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma oblong, black ;
membrauule black.
Adult Male. Thorax and base of abdomen pruinose.
Female. Abdomen each side, with a broad, interrupted, yellow
stripe.
Eight antecubitals ; six postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 28 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey) ; Matamoras, Mexico.
12. D. naeva!
Dythemis naeva Hagen !
Brownish-black ; mouth and front black, with two yellow spots
each side ; front superiorly and the vertex, chalybeous ; thorax
black, subpruinose, a little clothed with cinereous hair; sides each
with oblique stripes, which are obsolete above, yellow; feet black;
abdomen shorter than the wings, slender, triquetral, hardly thicker
168 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
before the apex, black, subpruinose, segments 2 — T each side with
a larger yellowish spot, which is obsolete in the female ; append-
ages black ; anterior lamina entire ; hamules prominent, black,
furcated, the external branch large, truncated ; vulvar lamina
large, erect, triangular, excavated ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma
oblong, fuscous; membranule black; 7 — 10 antecubitals ; 6 — 7
postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 30 millim. Alar expanse 48 millim. Pterostigma 2^
millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey).
13. D. debilis !
Dythemis debilis Hagen !
Nigro-fuscous ; mouth and front yellowish-white ; vertex, and
the front above, chalybeous ; thorax nigro-fuscous, clothed with
cinereous hair, pruinose; the sides brassy-fuscous, obsoletely spot-
ted with yellow; feet black, anterior femora pale beneath; abdo-
men shorter than the wings, slender, somewhat broader before the
apex, triquetral, black, the base pruinose, the seventh segment
each side with a lateral spot, which is long, triangular, segments
5 — 6 each side with a lateral line, yellowish ; appendages black ;
anterior genital lamina each side with an impressed, flat, pyriform
lobe; hamule not prominent; wings hyaline ; pterostigma oblong,
fuscous ; membranule blackish-gray. Adult male.
Six antecubitals ; four postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 24 millim. Alar expanse 37 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hub. Cuba (Poey).
ERYTHEMIS HAGEN.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the pro-
thorax large, broad, bilobed ; abdomen a little shorter than the
wings, broad, depressed, the apex sensibly narrower ; feet long,
rather strong; first sector of the triangle a little sinuated; triangle
moderate, narrow; caudal appendages short; genital organs hardly
prominent ; vulva disclosed or obtected, the segment following it
a little carinated, bituberculated ; sides of the eighth abdominal
segment of the female not dilated.
ERYTHEMIS. 169
1. E. furcata!
Erythemis furcata Hagen !
Ferruginous ; front luteous ; feet black, femora rufo-fuscous ;
superior appendages of the male recurved, thicker at the apex ;
the inferior appendage short, quadrangular, the apex forked ; an-
terior genital lamina prominent, forked ; vulva disclosed, the apex
of the lamina excised ; wings hyaline, base of the hind ones nar-
rowly orange ; pterostigma oblong, luteous ; membranule black ;
nine antecubitals ; eight postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hab. Cuba (Osten Sacken) ; Bahia, Brazil ; Tampico, Mexico
(Saussure).
2. E. bicolor!
Libellula bicolor Erich.! Schomburgk, Voyag. Guiana III.
J1. Mouth, front and vertex brassy-black; thorax blue-black,
subpruinose ; abdomen ferruginous, the base black ; appendages
ferruginous ; feet black; wings hyaline, base of the posterior ones
narrowly fuscous ; pterostigma luteous ; membranule black.
9. Luteo-testaceous ; incisures of the abdomen black; feet
black, anterior femora luteous beneath ; vulvar lamina produced,
erect, acute, triangular ; wings subfumose, the apex a little iiifus-
cated, the base of the posterior ones yellowish ; 12 — 14 antecubi-
tals ; 9 — 10 postcubitals; three discoidal areolets.
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 63 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hab. Choco, New Grenada (Schott) ; Surinam, Guiana ; Brazil.
Is it different from Libellula peruviana Rainbur ?
3. E. longipes !
Erythemis longipes Hagen !
Rufous ; mouth rufo-fuscous, front chalybeous above ; thorax
villose, rufo-fuscous ; feet brownish-black, slender, very long ; ab-
domen longer, depressed, rufo-fuscous, the sides yellow; superior
appendages of the male rufo-fuscous, long, cylindrical, the apex
thicker, beneath upon the middle a little inflated ; the inferior
appendage triangular, acute ; vulvar lamina broad, excised in the
middle ; wings hyaline with red veins, the base of the posterior
170 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
wings flavescent ; pterostigma oblong, yellow ; membranule black ;
.8 — 9 antecubitals; 6 — 7 postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets.
Length 38 rnillim. Alar expanse 66 millim. Pterostigma 3
milliia.
Jfab. Cuba (Poey); Minas Geraes, Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
MESOTHEMIS HAGEN.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the pro-
thorax large, broad, bilobed ; abdomen a little shorter than the
wings, narrow, triquetral, the base compressed, somewhat broad-
ened before the apex ; feet long, rather strong ; the first sector of
the triangle sinuated ; the triangle moderate, narrow ; appendages
short; genital organs not prominent; vulva obtected; sides of the
eighth segment of the female not dilated.
1. M. simplicicollis !
Libellula simplicicollis Say, Journ. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 28, 16. Libellula
caerulans Ramb. ! Neuropt. 64, 44(£). Selys ! Poey, Ins. Cuba,
448. Libellula maculiventris Rarab.! Neuropt. 87, 78
Yellowish-green; mouth and front yellowish, a narrow black
band before the eyes ; thorax yellowish-green, the sides inferiorly
varied with black; abdomen compressed at base, vesiculose, tri-
quetral, a little broader before the apex, yellowish-green, the
sutures and margins black, the segments 4 — 10 with a quadran-
gular, dorsal spot behind, black ; the last segments sometimes
altogether black ; venter obscure ; appendages yellow ; feet black,
the anterior femora yellowish beneath ; the vulvar lamina erect,
triangular, excavated; wings hyaline; pterostigma oblong, yellow;
membranule black.
Adult Male. Thorax and abdomen blue-pruinose.
11 — 12 antecubitals; 9 — 12 postcubitals; three discoidal areo-
lets.
Length 41 — 45 millim. Alar expanse 60 — 70 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3k — 4 millim.
Jfab. Indiana; Illinois; Massachusetts; Philadelphia; New
York; New Jersey; Savannah; Florida; New Orleans; Pecos
River, Texas (Capt. Pope) ; Matamoras, Iluastee (Saussure),
Mexico; Cuba.
A common species.
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MESOTHEMIS. 171
2. M. collocata!
Alesothemis collocata Hagen !
Yellowish-green; ruouth and front yellowish, a narrow black
band before the eyes; thorax yellowish-green, dorsum with a black
spot each side, the sides with three oblique lines, the middle one
interrupted, a spot behind, and some streaks at the feet, black;
feet black, anterior femora yellowish beneath ; abdomen compressed
at base, vesiculose, triquetral, the apex almost equal, yellowish-
green, the sutures and margins all banded with black; appendages
black ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma oblong, yellow ; menabranule
black. Teneral male.
11 — 12 antecubitals ; nine postcubitals ; three discoidal areo-
lets.
Length 43 millim. Alar expanse 61 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hal. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
3. M. corrupta !
Mesothemis corrupta Hagen !
Luteous; mouth, front and vertex yellowish; head robust; tho-
rax luteo-fuscous, clothed with white hairs; dorsum with a white
stripe each side ; sides each with two oblique white stripes, and at
the feet a sulphureous spot, which is bounded inferiorly with fus-
cous; feet black, yellow above, tarsi black; abdomen stoutish, the
base a little more robust, luteous (with the teneral ones, whitish-
yellow) ; each side an arcuated fuscous stripe, dorsum with an
interrupted stripe, two points upon the apical segments, and a
larger spot upon the middle of segments 8 and 9, fuscous ; an
interrupted, whitish, ventral stripe ; appendages yellow ; vulvar
lamina flat, the apex emarginated; wings hyaline, with yellow
veins; pterostigma oblong^, yellow, fuscous in the middle; mem-
branule white ; seven antecubitals ; 6 — 7 postcubitals ; three dis-
coidal areolets.
Length 37 — 43 millim. Alar expanse 58 — 64 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 millim.
Hal. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope); Illinois (Ken-
nicott) ; Matamoras, Mexico ; Ajan, Sea of Ochotsk.
The adult male from Matamoras is obscurer, the pterostigmata
are uni-colored, luteo-fuscous.
172 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
4. M. illota!
Mesothemis illota Hagen!
Luteous; mouth yellowish, front rufous above ; thorax luteous,
with luteous hair, the sides each with two white spots at the feet,
which are margined beneath with fuscous ; feet luteous ; abdomen
rufous, appendages rufous; wings hyaline, veined with luteous,
the base, and anterior margin as far as the nodus, flavescent ; the
anterior wings with one rufo-fuscous, basal streak, the posterior
ones with a double one; pterostigma luteo-fuscous ; membranule
whitish. Male.
Nine antecubitals ; seven postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 37 rnilliin. Alar expanse 56 millim. Pterostigma 2|
millim.
Hob. Xorth California; Mexico.
I saw a female from Ajan (Sea of Ochotsk), which was a little
larger ; the alar expanse was 62 millim. : — the anterior margin of
the wings all flavescent, no basal streaks, the thorax upon each of
the sides with two oblique white stripes; the feet blackish-fuscous;
is it the same species ?
Libellula gilva Hagen, from Columbia, is very similar to M.
illota : — I am in doubt whether it is different.
5. M. attala.
Libellula attala Selys. Poey, Ins. Cuba, p. 445.
Blackish-smoky ; base of the abdomen inflated, the dorsuui with
obsolete rufous spots each side ; feet blackish ; wings hyaline,
veined with black, anterior ones with a small, basal spot, upon the
posterior wings the spot is larger and produced almost to the
origin of the triangle, fuscous ; pterostigma moderate, brownish-
olive. (From the description of De Selys Longchamps.)
Fifteen antecubitals; nine postcubitals; three discoidal areolets.
Length 42 millim. Alar expanse 70 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hob. Cuba.
This is Libellula annulata Rambur, 78, 65, in part.
6. M. mithra.
Libellula mithra Selys. Poey, Ins. Cuba, p. 446. Libellula annulata Ramb.
Neuropt. 78, 65 (in part).
Very much like the preceding species, but the posterior wings
DIPLAX. 173
are narrower, and the basal spot smaller. (From the description
of De Selys Longchamps.)
Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 66 millim.
Nab. Island of Martinique.
7. M. longipennis!
Libellula longipennis Burm. Handb. II, 850, 12. Libellula soda Ramb. !
Neuropt. 96, 94. Libellula truncatula Ramb. Neuropt. 95, 92 ?
Fuscous ; mouth and front yellowish-white ; vertex, and front
superiorly, chalybeous ; thorax fuscous, clothed with luteous-hairs,
dorsum each side with a streak, and a transverse line at the wings,
yellow ; sides yellow, with three oblique, fuscous lines ; abdomen
triquetral, short, sensibly attenuated; of the female, broader at
the apex, yellowish, dorsum with three broad, fuscous stripes, con-
fluent towards the apex; the last segment extremely short ; append-
ages black; abdomen of the adult male (more rarely of the female),
pruiuose ; feet black ; wings hyaline, veins black, the base flaves-
cent ; of the adult male often dusky towards the apex ; posterior
wings of the male, with a double fuscous streak at base ; wings of
the female hardly flavescent, with no basal streaks ; pterostigma
fulvous ; membranule black ; six antecubitals ; six postcubitals ;
three discoidal areolets.
Length 35 — 44 millim. Alar expanse 59 — TO millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 — 4 millim.
Nab. Maryland ; New York ; Illinois ; Savannah, Dalton,
Georgia; Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Pecos River, West-
ern Texas (Capt. Pope) ; North California ; Matamoras, Mexico.
A common species.
Specimens from Western Texas have the thorax and abdomen
almost entirely brassy-black ; but they are not different from the
others.
A male from California has the thorax and abdomen very prui-
nose, the extreme base of the wings only is flavescent, and the
fuscous streaks are almost absent.
DIPLAX CHAEP.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the prothorax
large, broad, bilobed ; abdomen a little shorter than the wings,
slender triquetral, the base compressed ; feet long, slender ; the
114 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
first sector of the triangle sinuated ; triangle moderate, broad ;
caudal appendages short; the genital organs not prominent; vulva
obtected ; the sides of the eighth segment iii the female not di-
lated.
**t,
1. D. assimilata!
Libellula assimilata Ulilert Proc. Acad. Philad. 1857, 88, 6.
Yellowish ; mouth and front pale yellow, a narrow black band
before the eyes; dorsum of the thorax luteous, sides yellow; ab-
domen slender, the base compressed, inflated, yellowish, dorsum of
the first and second segments black at base, segments 4 — 9 each
side with a marginal, black stripe ; appendages yellowish, the in-
ferior one triangular, truncated at the apex and a little excised ;
vulvar lamina short, narrow, almost quadrangular, inflated, bifid,
recurved at the apex ; feet black, the femora partly yellowish ;
wings hyaline, the base flavescent, the basal half with the males
and sometimes with the females, flavescent ; pterostigma short,
yellow, obscure in the middle, membranule white ; 7 — 9 antecubi-
tals ; 6 — 8 postcubitals ; three discoiclal areolets.
Length 33 — 3T millim. Alar expanse 56 — 60 millim. Ptero-
stigma 2k millim.
Hob. Fort Union, Nebraska (Dr. Suckley) ; Illinois and Wis-
consin (Kennicott) ; St. Louis ; Washington ; Chicago (Osten
Sacken) ; Pennsylvania ; Maryland (Uhler).
It is very much like Diplax flaveola Linn, of Europe.
2. D. madida!
Diplax madida Hagen !
Flavescent ; dorsum of the thorax luteous ; the sides yellow, with
two of the sutures black; abdomen yellowish, the two basal seg-
ments black at base; segments 3 — 5 each side with the lateral
margin and a lateral stripe, black; feet black, the anterior femora
yellow beneath ; wings fumose, the anterior margin, and the base
of the posteriors, flavescent; pterostigma long, narrow, yellow;
membranule white. Female.
Six antecubitals ; six postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length — ? Alar expanse 58 millim. Pterostigma 3 millim.
Hob. Upper Missouri.
Described from a single, mutilated specimen ; the head, and apex
of the abdomen is destroyed.
DIPLAX. 115
3. D. costifera!
Libellula costifera Uhler ! Mss.
Yellowish ; thorax densely covered with long whitish hairs ;
second segment of the abdomen with a dorsal, triangular, fuscous
spot, the following segments having the lateral margin black ; the
vulvar lamina short, truncated, excavated, a little erected ; feet
yellow ; wings hyaline, the anterior margin and immediate base,
flavescent ; pterostigma broadened, yellow ; membranule white.
(Teneral female). Adult female : — sides of the thorax whitish-
yellow, with a black vestige upon the posterior suture ; the abdo-
men is a little pruiuose beneath, the eighth and ninth segments
have an ill-defined, longitudinal, black spot upon the middle ; the
femora have a black line exteriorly, and the tarsi are black. The
genital hamule of the male is bifid, the branches widely separated,
the posterior branch elongately-triangular, at tip a little decurved,
the anterior branch shorter, very slender, strongly recurved, acute
at the apex, the extreme point black ; genital lobe oblong, slightly
rounded at tip, hairy; denticles of the superior appendage sub-
equal ; inferior appendage but little shorter than the superiors,
triangular, rounded at the sides, emarginate at tip, and with a
minute denticle each side ; 7 — 8 antecubitals ; 5 — 6 postcubitals;
three discoidal areolets.
Length 35 — 39 millim. Alar expanse 58 — 60 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 millim.
Hal. Massachusetts (Scudder); New York (Edwards).
4. D. vicina !
Diplax vicina Hagen !
Yellowish-red ; front rnfescent above, with a small, black band
before the eyes ; thorax and abdomen yellowish-red or altogether
yellowish (teneral); abdomen compressed at base, very much in-
flated beneath ; hamules longly bifid, the branches equal ; vulvar
lamina truncated, erect, excavated ; feet yellowish-red ; wings
hyaline, veins luteous, the extreme base flavescent ; pterostigma
oblong, luteous, broader in the middle; membranule whitish gray;
6 — 7 antecubitals ; six postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 31 — 36 millim. Alar expanse 46 — 52 millim. Ptero-
stigma 2^ millim.
nab. Bergen Hill, New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Washington
(Osten Sacken).
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Similar to D costifera, but the base of the abdomen is more in-
flated, the pterostigma shorter and broader, the anterior margin of
the wings clear hyaline. Is it distinct ? May it not be a variety?
5. D. semicincta!
Libellula semicincta Say. Jour. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 27, 15.
Rufous; front yellowish-red, with a broader black stripe before
the eyes ; dorsum of the thorax rufous, the sides inferiorly with
two obsolete, luteous spots, which are margined in part with black ;
feet black, the anterior femora luteous beneath ; abdomen short,
triquetral, the base a little inflated, rufo-fuscous, the lateral margin
and venter black ; the superior appendages rufous, cylindrical, the
apex black, before the apex beneath with a larger tooth ; the in-
ferior appendage hardly shorter, black, triangular, the apex a little
excised ; genital hamule short, bifid, the external branch stout,
conical, the internal one equal, unguiculated ; the genital lobe of
the length of the hamule, the apex rounded, broader ; wings hya-
line, fuscescent from the base to the nodus (not extending so far
upon the anterior wings) ; pterostigma quadrangular, fulvous, sur-
rounded with black nerves; membranule white. Male.
Seven antecubitals ; six postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 30 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hab. Indiana ; Massachusetts (Say) ; Pennsylvania ; Maryland
(Uhler).
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6. D. rubicundula !
Libellula rubicundula Say. Jour. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 26, 14. Libellula
^hmbigua Ramb. Neuropt. 106, 105 ; Selys, Revue Odonat. 325.
Yellowish-subrufescent; front yellowish, with a black band before
the eyes ; thorax rufous, the sides sometimes luteous ; feet black,
anterior femora luteous beneath; abdomen rather long, slender,
sanguineous (adult male), or yellowish rufous, the sides with a
maculose, black stripe ; appendages rufescent ; superior ones of
the male longer, the apex acute, recurved, beneath upon the mid-
dle with a stouter tooth; inferior appendage shorter, rufescent,
triangular, the apex a little excised ; the genital hamule rather long,
very bifid, the external branch triangular, the internal one a little
longer, narrow, subincurved; the genital lobe short, triangular,
the apex narrow ; vulvar lamina small, triangular, the base inflated,
DIPLAX. 177
longly bifid ; wings hyaline, the extreme base yellowish; ptero-
stigma quadrangular, fuscous, terminated at each end with pale ;
membranule white; 7 — 8 antecubitals ; 7 — 8 postcubitals ; three
discoidal areolets.
Length 32 — 37 millim. Alar expanse 50 — 58 rnillim. Ptero-
stigma 2 millim.
Hob. Indiana; Massachusetts (Say); Maryland (Uhler) ; Bergen
Hill, New Jersey (Guex) ; Chicago ; Washington ; New York ;
Philadelphia (Osten Sacken).
A common species. The variety described by Say 1. c. p. 27,
" wings with the basal half ferruginous" — is unknown to me.
I possess a male from Chicago most like this species, except that
the form of the hamules is different ; being shorter, the apex only
bifid, the external branch broad, truncated ; the internal branch
small, unguiculated : — is it a distinct species ?
7. D. albifrons f
Libdlula albifrons Charp.! Libell. Europ. 14; tab. ix, fig. 3. — Libellula
ambigua Selys, Revue Odonat. 325.
Yellowish-subrufescent ; front narrow, yellow, no band before
the eyes; dorsum of the thorax luteo-fuscous, the sides paler, va-
ried with fuscous at the feet; feet luteous, the anterior femora ex-
teriorly, and the tarsi partly, fuscous ; abdomen long, slender,
sanguineous (adult male), or luteous ; segments 1 and 2 at base,
and segments 4 — 9 each side at the apex, with a triangular, black
spot; appendages luteo-rufons, superior ones of the male long, the
apex acute, recurved, beneath in the middle with a stout tooth ;
inferior appendage shorter, triangular, the apex a little excised ;
hamules long, the apex bifid, the external branch small, stout,
truncated; the internal branch longer, narrow, unguicnlated; gen-
ital lobe shorter, triangular; vulvar lamina broad, short, rounded,
the apex a little incised on the middle ; wings hyaline, extreme
base a little flavescent ; pterostigma quadrangular, fuscous, termi-
nated at each end with pale; membranule whitish-cinereous ; eight
antecubitals; 6 — 8 postcubitals; three discoidal areolets.
Length 33 — 36 millim. Alar expanse 54 — 58 millim. Ptero-
stigma 2 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot); St. Louis (Engelmann).
I possess the male described and figured by Charpentier ; the
locality as reported by him (" Switzerland") is erroneous.
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178 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
8. D. berenice!
Libellula berenice Drury, Ins. 1, 114; tab. xlviii, fig. 3. Oliv. Enc. Meth.;
Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 25, 13; Rambur, Neuropt. 88, SO.—
Libellula hisirio Burm.! Handb. II, 849, 7. 9 .
Black ; mouth black, the labium yellow each side ; front black
beneath, with a yellow spot each side, above and the vertex cha-
lybeous; eyes black posteriorly, spotted with yellow ; thorax black,
subpruinose ; the sides of the same color, or (teueral) with some
yellow spots towards the legs ; feet black ; abdomen slender, tri-
quetral, the base hardly inflated, altogether black, subpruinose
(adult male), or with segments 3 — 7 having a yellow spot each
side (male and female, less adult) ; or black, and segments 3 — 7
with a large, phalerated, fulvous spot, divided by a medial black
line; the last segment partly fulvous (teneral female) ; appendages
black; the vulvar lamina long, erect, triangular, excavated; wings
hyaline, base of the posterior ones, in the female, subrufous; ptero-
stigma long, yellow; membranule black.
Var. 9 (L. histrio Burm.). Labium yellow, the middle nar-
rowly black ; labrum yellow, margined with black ; front yellow,
with a transverse black stripe, and a small T-shaped chalybeous
spot above ; vertex chalybeous, with a bright yellow spot above ;
prothorax black, spotted with yellow ; thorax bright yellow, the
middle sulcus and a double stripe, which is joined together at each
end, black; sides yellow, with five partly interrupted, oblique, black
streaks; the more adult female has the black markings broader and
more confluent ; feet black, extreme base of the femora yellow ;
abdomen black, segments 1 — 7 with a large, dorsal, phalerated
spot, incisures black ; the tenth segment and appendages fulvous ;
wings hyaline, the extreme base flavescent, all the wings with a
large medial, fuscescent cloud ; pterostigma yellow ; membranule
black; nine antecubitals ; 7 — 9 postcubitals ; three discoidal are-
olets.
Length 32 — 34 millim. Alar expanse 50 millim. Pterostigma
3 millim.
Hob. Bergen Hill, New Jersey (Guex); New York; Maryland
(Uhler) ; Virginia. A common species. I possess a male and
female of the variety, taken in copula.
DIPLAX. 179
9. D. scotica!
Libellula scotica Donovan; Selys! Revue des Odonat. 48, 22 (with the
synonyms).
Fusco-olivaceous ; labium yellow, with a middle black band ;
labrum yellow, margined with black ; front yellow, a band anteri-
orly, obsolete or absent with the female, and another before the
eyes, black ; dorsum of the thorax olivaceous, the middle sulcns
broadly, triangularly black; dorsum of the male sometimes fuscous,
the middle black, with two yellowish spots each side; sides yellow,
with a broad, oblique black band; beneath black, with three cord-
iform, yellow spots ; feet black ; abdomen short, triquetral, black,
each side with a yellow, maculose stripe ; dorsum of the abdomen
entirely fulvous in the females ; appendages black ; vulvar lamina
triangular, erect, excavated ; wings hyaline, posterior ones of the
females flavescent at the extreme base ; pterostigma quadrangular,
black; membranule whitish.
Adult Male. Mouth, and the front almost entirely, black ; thorax
and abdomen black, with the yellowish marks absent, or almost
absent. Seven antecubitals ; 5 — 7 postcubitals ; three discoidal
areolets.
Length 33 millim. Alar expanse 52 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hob. ]S"orth Red River (Robt. Kennicott) ; almost everywhere
in Europe; Asia; Wilui River, Irkoutsk, Siberia.
The American specimens are hardly distinct ; but the color is a
little different ; the black labial stripe is narrow anteriorly, trian-
gular; the dorsum of the thorax is of an olive fuscous color, trans-
versely interrupted, so as to appear 4-spotted ; dorsal middle of
the abdomen, in the female, somewhat black.
10. D. intacta !
Diplax intacta Hagen !
Fuscous; mouth and front white; labium in the middle (?)
black, and in adult male, all black ; front with a black band before
the eyes; vertex black, with a pale spot above, or all black (adult);
thorax nigro-fuscous, dorsum each side with an obsolete fulvous
stripe, sides fuscous, obsoletely varied with black; the adult male
has the thorax brassy-black ; feet black ; abdomen short, somewhat
broader before the apex, fuscous, with dorsal, phalerate, fulvous
spots; upon the base and segments 6 — 7 they are larger; or black,
180 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
with a dorsal yellowish spot upon the seventh segment (adult
male) ; appendages black ; the inferior one half the length of the
superiors, quadrangular, broadly bifid ; wings hyaline, posterior
ones at base, with a triangular black spot ; base of the wings, in
the females, flavescent ; pterostigma short, quadrangular, black ;
membranule blackish-gray; 7 — 8 antecubitals ; 7 — 9 postcubitals;
three discoidal areolets.
Length 32 millim. Alar expanse 52 millim. Pterostigma 2
millim.
Hob. Wisconsin (Dr. Hoy); Chicago (Osten Sacken); Ohio
(Schaum); Massachusetts (Scudder).
11. D. hudsonica.
Libellula hudsonica Selys, Revue des Odonat. 53.
Similar to Diplax diibia Yander Linden (perhaps its variety ?) ;
it differs in being smaller, the basal spot of the posterior wings is
small, the reticulation of the wings is less narrow ; the vertex is
yellow above ; the labrum is hardly margined with black ; the
teeth upon the inferior surface of the superior -appendages of the
male are almost equal. (From the description of De Selys Long-
champs.)
Length 27 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim.
Halt. New Brunswick; Hudson's Bay.
12. D. dubia!
L. dubia Selys! Revue des Odonat. 50, 21.
Black ; front white, labium black, labrum white, margined with
black ; the vertex and a band before the eyes, black ; thorax ob-
scure brassy-green, with brown villosity ; dorsum with a subinter-
rupted, fulvous stripe each side; sides spotted with fulvous; feet
black ; abdomen slender, triquetral, the dorsum spotted with yel-
low, base spotted, and segments 6 and 7 with larger spots ; wings
hyaline, or fumose, sometimes with the base flavescent, anterior
ones with two basal points, and the posterior ones with a point and
triangular spot at base, black ; pterostigma quadrangular, nigro-
fuscous ; membranule cinereous ; eight antecubitals ; seven post-
cubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 37 niilliui. Alar expanse 58 millim. Pterostigraa 2
millim.
Hub. Europe.
DIPLAX. 181
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13. D. ochracea!
Libellula ochracea Burm.! Handb. Ill, 854, 38. — Libellula fcrvida Erichs.!
Voyag. Schomburgk II, 584. — Libellula justiniana Selys. Poey, Ins.
Cuba, 450.
Rufous, or yellowish; mouth yellow, front rufous above; thorax
rufous or yellow, dorsuni pointed with fuscous; sides inferiorly
bright yellow; feet black, base of the femora partly yellowish;
abdomen a little thickened, short, triquetral, rufous or yellowish,
a dorsal stripe and each side a lateral one, submaculose, nigro-
fuscous ; the apical segment and appendages yellowish; genital
hamule bifld, the external branch stout, truncated ; the internal
branch small, unguiculated ; genital lobe equal, obliquely truncated
behind; vulvar lamina triangular, erect, excavated; wings hyaline,
the base flavescent, or rufescent ; pterostigma rather long, oblong,
yellowish ; membranule blackish-gray.
Adult Male. Almost entirely rufous; — female with the apex of
the wings sometimes a little infuscated. I saw a very adult male
from Surinam, which was almost entirely black, the front chalybeous
above, the base of the wings brownish-black, and the abdomen
partly pruinose. 10 — 11 antecubitals ; 1 — 8 postcubitals ; three
discoidal areolets, then two.
Length 30 — 35 millim. Alar expanse 50 — 56 millim. Ptero-
stigma 3 millim.
Hob. Choco, New Grenada (Schott) ; Cuba (Poey) ; Surinam,
British Guiana; Bahia, Brazil; Porto Cabello, Yenezuela; Tam-
pico, Mexico. (Saussure).
It is a common species in meridional America.
14. D. justiniana.
Libellula justiniana Selys. Poey, Ins. Cuba, 450. — Libellula minuscula
Ramb. Neuropt. 115, 118, in part.
Fuscous ; front above, and the vertex chalybeous (adult male),
or yellowish (teneral male and female); thorax yellow, dorsuni
each side fuscous, or altogether blackish-fuscous (adult male) ; feet
black, femora yellowish in part ; abdomen short, slender, trique-
tral, yellowish, each side spotted with black, or black, pruinose
(adult male); appendages brownish-black; genital lobe broader
at the apex, oval; vulvar lamina broad, oval, excavated, suberect;
wings hyaline, base of the anterior ones a little flavescent, base of
the posteriors broadly rufo-fuscous, or flavescent ( 9 ) ; pterostigma
182 NEUROPTEBA OF NORTH AMERICA.
oblong, yellow; membranule nigro-cinereous; 8 — 10 antecubitals ;
6 — 7 postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets, then two.
Length 25 — 31 millim. Alar expanse 38 — 47 millim. Ptero-
stigma 2 — 2^ millira.
Hab. Cuba (Poey).
15. D. elisa !
Diplax elisa Hagen!
Fuscous, head yellowish in front, the labium with a medial,
fuscous stripe ; front with a narrow black band before the eyes;
thorax fuscous, the middle sulcus obscurer ; the sides fuscous or
yellow, moderately punctated with black ; feet black, base of the
femora partly yellowish; abdomen a little thickened, triquetral,
black, segments 1 — 7 with a dorsal, larger, phalerate, yellow spot;
appendages yellowish ; genital lobe narrow, small, triangular ;
vulvar lamina broad, oval, the apex excised ; wings hyaline, the
anterior margin and base flavescent, an apical and ante-apical
fuscous spot ; anterior wing at base with a small spot, and the pos-
terior ones with a large fuscous spot, which is lacerated, divided,
veined with yellow, and a broad yellow band ; antecubital veins
margined with fuscous in part; pterostigma oblong, large, yel-
low ; membrauules white ; eight antecubitals ; 7 — 8 postcubitals ;
three discoidal areolets.
Length 33 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim. Pterostigma 3
millim.
Hab. Bergen Hill, New Jersey (Guex) ; Chicago ; New York
(Osten Sacken).
16. D. ornata!
Diplax ornata Ramb. Neuropt. 96, 93.
Yellow varied with black ; head yellow in front, labium with a
black stripe in the middle ; front with a narrow black band before
the eyes; thorax yellow, dorsum with a broad, medial, black stripe ;
sides yellow, with three oblique, black, somewhat brassy stripes ;
abdomen triquetral, black, segment 1 — 7 with a dorsal, large, pha-
lerate, yellow spot ; superior appendages yellow, the inferior one
fuscous ; genital lobe narrow, linear ; vulvar lamina short, trun-
cated, each side with an inflated tubercle ; feet black, the anterior
femora yellowish at base; wings hyaline, the posterior ones with a
large, basal, fulvous spot, and two lacerated, fuscous stripes, the
DIPLAX. 183
anterior one narrow, bipartite ; the female sometimes has the base
of the anterior wings flavesceut, and some of the antecubital ner-
vules marked with fuscous. I have also seen females with the
fulvous spot and the fuscous stripes on the posterior wings very
small ; pterostigma oblong, yellow ; membranule white, cinereous
inwardly.
Adult Male. Almost entirely black, subpruinose.
6 — 9 antecubitals ; 5 — 7 postcubitals ; three discoidal areolets,
then two.
Length 30 — 32 millim. Alar expanse 55 millim. Pterostigma
2^ millim.
Hob. Philadelphia; Florida (Norton).
17. D. amanda !
Libellula pulchella Burm.! Handb. II, 849, 2.
Bright yellow ; mouth and front yellow, before the eyes a nar-
row fuscous band ; thorax yellow, dorsurn with a broad black stripe ;
sides yellow, sutures fuscous at the wings ; abdomen triquetral,
yellow, the segments black posteriorly, the three last black ; ap-
pendages yellow ; feet black ; femora partly yellow ; genital lobe
narrow linear; vulvar lamina rounded, excised in the middle; base
of the wings broadly flavescent, the posterior ones with a double
stripe, veined with yellow, the anterior one narrower, bipartite,
fuscous; pterostigma short, yellow; membranule white; eight an-
tecubitals; five postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
Length 25 — 27 millim. Alar expanse 44 — 47 millim. Ptero-
stigma If millim.
Hob. Savannah, Georgia.
18. D. minuscula !
Libellula minuscula Ramb.! Neiiropt. 115, 118.
Yellow, varied with black; front yellow, above chalybeous; tho-
rax black, pruinose (adult male), or yellow, dorsurn each side, with
a fuscous stripe ; the sides yellow, the sutures narrowly fuscous ;
feet black, anterior femora yellowish at base ; abdomen short, tri-
quetral, yellow, the dorsum with three maculose, black stripes, and
the apex black; appendages pale yellow; vulvar lamina triangular,
erect, excavated; wings hyaline, the extreme base of the posterior
ones fulvous ; pterostigma oblong, yellow; membranule cinereous ;
eight antecubitals; five postcubitals; two discoidal areolets.
184 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length 21 — 26 millim. Alar expanse 34 — 46 inillim. Ptero-
stigma 1^ — 2 millim.
Hob. Kentucky; Georgia; Florida; Brazil.
19, D. credula!
Diplax credula Hagen !
Fuscous ; mouth luteous, front rufo-fuscous above ; dorsum of
the thorax fuscous, a luteous stripe upon the middle; sides luteous;
feet brownish-black, base of the femora luteous ; abdomen rather
long, triquetral, the base compressed, inflated, nigro-fuscous, sub-
pruinose, with the base fuscous (male), or luteous, with the dorsal
middle fuscous, and the incisures nigro-fuscous (female) ; vulvar
lamina triangular, excavated ; wings hyaline, the extreme base of
the posterior ones fulvescent ; pterostigma larger, yellow ; mem-
branule black; twelve antecubitals; ten postcubitals; three dis-
coidal areolets.
Length 38 millim. Alar expanse 62 millim. Pterostigma 4
millim.
Hob. Island of St. Thomas; Minas Geraes, Brazil.
-2<.
20. D. abjecta!
Libellula abjecta Ramb.! Neuropt. 83, 73.
Brownish-black ; mouth fuscous, front chalybeous above ; thorax
nigro-fuscous; feet black; abdomen slender, triquetral, the base
hardly inflated, nigro-fuscous, pruinose; appendages fuscous; vul-
var lamina triangular, erect, excavated; wings hyaline, the ex-
treme base of the posterior ones fuscous ; pterostigma large,
yellow ; membranulo black ; eleven antecubitals ; seven post-
cubitals ; three discoidal areolets.
Length 38 millim. Alar expanse 58 millim. Pterostigma 3£
millim.
Nab. Cuba; Venezuela; Brazil.
In specimens from Cuba, the basal spot of the posterior wings
is wanting, or almost wanting, but they are not different. 2).
abjecta is similar to the preceding species, but the posterior lobe
of the prothorax is small : does it belong to this genus ? It may
be an Erythemis ?
** -'• - ;-
PERITHEMIS. 185
21. D. imbuta.
Libcllula imbuta Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 32.
g . Abdomen red, the segments black at apex; thorax green;
vertex chalybeous.
9. Abdomen greenish, segments black at the apex.
Hal. Island of Sanipuxten, coast of Maryland. (From the
description of Say.) It is entirely unknown to me.
PERITHEMIS HAGEN.
Eyes connected in a short space; posterior lobe of the pro-
thorax large, broad, bilobed ; abdomen much shorter than the
wings, broad, depressed, narrower at base; legs moderate, slender;
the first sector of the triangle hardly sinuated ; triangle moderate,
broad; caudal appendages short; genital organs not prominent;
vulva obtected ; sides of the eighth segment of the female not
dilated.
SI
1. P. domitia!
Libellula domitia Drury, Ins. II, 83 ; pi. xlv, fig. 4. Burm. Handb. II,
855, 40. Rarnb.! Neuropt. 124, 132.
Var. 1. Libellula tenuicincta Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII,
31, 21 (£ ). Libellula tenera Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 31,
20(9). Libellula chlora Ramb.I Neuropt. 125, 133. Libellula
metella Selys, Poey Ins. Cuba, 451.
Var. 2. Libellula iris Hagen.
Flavesceut, villose ; the sides of the thorax similarly colored :
dorsum of the abdomen, with an interrupted, brownish-black line
each side; feet flavescent; wings flavescent (^), or the basal half
flavescent, with two fuscous, transverse stripes, the internal one of
which is often almost absent (9); pterostigma rufo-fuscous ; mem-
branule cinereous.
Var. 1. Sides of the thorax fuscous, two interrupted yellow
lines each side ; all the wings of the male, with a basal, fuscous
point.
Var. 2. Sides of the thorax of the same color with the remainder
of the body ; the wings hyaline, subflavescent, the anterior margin
yellow ; posterior wings of the female, with a fuscous nebula at the
186 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
apex ; seven antecubitals ; five postcubitals ; two discoidal are-
olets.
Length 23 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim. Pterostigma 2
millini.
Hab. Maryland ; New Jersey ; Bay of Campeacby ; Cuba ;
Yenezuela ; Bahia, St. Leopold, Brazil.
Var. 1. Indiana, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York,
Louisiana ; Matamoras, Mexico ; Atlihauzan (Saussure).
Var. 2. Mexico, Alvarado ; Brazil.
I saw in the collection of Schneider, Uracis fastigiata Burm.,
from Mexico ; the habitat is perhaps erroneous ; it is a meridional
species.
NANNOPHYA RAMB.
Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the pro-
thorax entire; abdomen shorter than the wings, slender, triquetral;
the appendages short; genital organs not prominent; reticulation
of the wings large and simple ; the triangle large, broad ; the first
sector of the triangle siuuated.
1. N. bella !
Nannophya bella Uhler! Proc. Acad. Philad. 1857, 87, 1.
? . Black ; mouth black, front and epistoma white, the former
with a large quadrangular, black spot, labrum black ; vertex chaly-
beous ; thorax black, dorsum each side with an interrupted, yel-
low line ; sides with two oblique stripes and a triangular patch
behind, interrupted, yellow ; abdomen black, the base, a band at
the base of segments 3 and 4, a spot at the base of 5 — 7, that upon
7 almost obsolete, minute, and the dorsum of the last segment,
yellow, segments 8 — 9 entirely black ; feet black ; appendage^ yel-
low ; vulvar lamina large, reaching to the tip of the last segment,
triangular, excavated ; wings hyaline, fulvous at base ; pterostigma
small, black; 6 — 7 antecubitals ; 5 — 6 postcubitals ; one discoidal
areolet, then two.
Length 18 millim. Alar expanse 32 millim. Pterostigma 1£
millim.
£ . Black, pruinose ; mouth black, front white, with a quad-
rangular black spot inferiorly ; vertex chalybeous ; thorax and
abdomen black, very pruinose ; feet black (apex of the abdomen
SIALIS. 187
destroyed) ; wings hyaline ; pterostigma small, black, terminated
with a white nervule at each end ; membranule white ; seven ante-
cubitals ; five postcubitals ; one discoidal areolet, then two.
Length 18 ? millim. Alar expanse 30 millim. Pterostigma 1
millim.
Hob. North America (Vienna Museum) ; Baltimore and New
Jersey (Uhler); Maine (Packard) ; Connecticut (Norton).
2. N. maculosa!
Nannophya maculosa Hagen !
Fuscous ; mouth black, nasus white, front chalybeous, each side
with a white spot ; thorax fuscous, each of the sides with obsolete,
yellow spots ; feet black ; abdomen brownish-black, segments each
side with a triangular, yellow spot, the three apical segments
brownish-black ; appendages white ; wings hyaline, base of the
posteriors fulvo-fuscous ; pterostigma small, yellow ; membranule
white. (Male.) Eight antecubital veins ; five postcubitals; one
discoidal areolet ; two at the triangle.
Length 20 millim. Alar expanse 31 millim. Pterostigma 1£
millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
SECTION II. NEUROPTERA. ERICH.
FAM. VII. SIALINA.
Body short, thick; prothorax large; antennas long, seti-
form; wings large, reticulated, posterior ones with the anal
space plicated ; tarsi 5-articulate. The larva with a mandi-
bulated mouth.
SIALIS LATREILLE.
Prothorax quadrangular, almost equal to the head; no ocelli;
antennae filiform; the wings irregularly reticulated, the veins stout;
the fourth article of the tarsi dilated, bilobed.
The larva is aquatic ; with lateral branchia?.
188 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
1. S. infumata !
Sialis infumatus Newm. ! Entom. Mag. V, 500; Walk. Catal. 195, 2.
Black, head not narrowed posteriorly, a little narrower than the
prothorax, the occiput with flat streaks and spots, which are fer-
ruginous and somewhat shining; antennas rather slender; anterior
angles of the prothorax rounded, the sides with impressed points ;
feet black; wings black, the veins thick and blacker.
Length to tip of wings 12 — 15 millim. Alar expanse 22 — 26
millim.
Hob. Arctic America (Richardson); Nova Scotia (Redman);
St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barnston); Tren-
ton Falls, ]STew York; Washington, in May (Osten Sacken); Bal-
timore, Maryland ; Pennsylvania (Uhler).
A variety has the head spotted beneath with yellow; or the pro-
thorax spotted with black : is it a different species ?
2. S. americana!
Semblis americanus Ramb. ! Neuropt. 447, 1. — Sialis ferrugineus Walk. !
Catal. 195, 3.
Ferruginous; head narrower behind, occiput with streaks and
spots, which are flat, somewhat shining, and surrounded with black;
prothorax a little narrower, the anterior angles square, the sides
with yellowish, impressed punctures; antenna? black; feet fuscous,
femora ferruginous ; wings pale ferruginous, the veins darker ferru-
ginous.
Length to tip of wings 12 — 14 millim. Alar expanse 24 — 26
millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot) ; Pennsylvania.
3. S. bifasciata !
Sialis bifasciata Hagen !
Ferruginous; head not narrowed posteriorly, orange-colored,
two broad black stripes, the occiput with flat streaks and spots,
which are somewhat shining, orange; antennae stout, black, pilose;
anterior angles of the thorax obtuse, orange, each side with a broad,
fuscous stripe and flat points, somewhat shining, orange ; feet fus-
cous, femora yellowish, with the base fuscous ; wings pale fuscous,
somewhat shining, anterior ones obscurer upon the costal margin,
the veins pale fuscous.
CHAULIODES. 189
Length to tip of wings 10 — 12 millim. Alar expanse 17 — 20
millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey).
CHAULIODES LATREILLE.
Prothorax quadrangular, almost equal to the head ; three ap-
proximate ocelli; antennas pectinated or serrated; wings veiny, the
transverse veins slender; articles of the tarsi cylindrical; caudal
appendages of the male conical, simple.
The larva is unknown; perhaps it is aquatic.
1. Ch. pectinicornis !
Hemerobius pectinicornis Linne, Amoen. Acad. VI, 412. Linne, Centur.
Ins. 1763, 29, 87. Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 911, 1 ; ed. XIII, vol.
V, 2638, 1. Fab. Syst. Ent. 309, 1. De Geer, Mem. Ill, 562, 2 ; tab.
xxvii, fig. 3. Drury, Ins. I, 105 ; tab. xlvi, fig. 3. — Semblis pectini-
cornis Fab. Sp. Ins. I, 386, 1. Mant. Ins. I, 244, 1. Entom. Syst.
II, T2, 1. — Chauliodes pectinicornis Latr. Gen. Crust. Ill, 198. Burm.l
Handb. II, 950, 2. Cuv. Icon. Regn. Auim. Masson. tab. cv, fig. 2.
Ramb. I Neuropt. 444, 1. Walk. ! Catal. 198, 1. — Hermes indecisus
Walker ! Catal. 204, 7. (Female.)
Luteo-cinereous ; antennas fuscous, pectinated ; occiput with yel-
lowish flat streaks and spots ; prothorax with a middle stripe be-
hind, and another flexuous one each side, yellowish; feet luteous,
tarsi fuscous ; the anterior wings subcinereous, obscurely clouded
with fuscous, veins with white interrupted spots; the wings some-
times have rather clearly-defined fuscous transverse streaks. Male
and female.
Length of body 37 — 55 millim. Alar expanse 58 — 90 millim.
Hob. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; Mas-
sachusetts ; Trenton Falls, New York ; Berkeley Springs, Virginia
(Osten Sacken) ; Maryland (Uhler) ; Columbia (collection of Saus-
sure) — is not this an error ?
2. Ch. rastricornis !
Chauliodes rastricornis Ramb.! Neuropt. 444, 2. Walk.! Catal. 198, 2.
Luteo-cinereous ; antennae fuscous, denticulated ; occiput with
flat black streaks and spots ; prothorax posteriorly, with a flexuous
stripe each side, obsolete upon the middle, impressed ; feet luteous,
190 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
tarsi fuscous ; anterior wings subcinereous, obscurely clouded with
fuscous, veins interruptedly white. Female.
Length of body 35 — 46 millim. Alar expanse 64 — 80 millira.
Halt. Savannah; South Carolina (Zimmerman).
3. Ch. californicus !
Chauliodes californicus Walker ! Catal. 199, 4. — Hermes dubitatus Walker!
Catal. 204, 6. Female.
Brownish-black; mouth rufous; antennae serrate ? (almost alto-
gether mutilated); occiput with rufous, somewhat shining, flat
streaks and spots ; prothorax each side posteriorly with a flexuous,
obsolete, rufous stripe, elevated and more obsolete in the middle ;
feet black ; anterior wings cinereous, the longitudinal veins trans-
versely liueated with fuscous ; a basal, brownish-black streak, and
sometimes apical ones upon the costal margin of all the wings.
Length to tip of wings 45 — 60 millim. Alar expanse 70 — 100
millim.
Hob. California (Hartweg).
4. Ch. virginiensis.
Chauliodes virginiensis Westw. ed. Drury, I, 105 ; tab. xlvi, fig. 3. —
Hemerobius virginiensis Drury, 111. II, App. — Hemerobius pectinicornis
Palisot Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Amer. Neuropt. tab. i, fig. 2 ; Walk.
Catal. 200, 6.
Head and thorax black, pointed with fulvous ; wings broad,
hyaline, the veins pointed with black. (From the description of
Walker.)
Alar expanse 72 millim.
Hob. Virginia.
Unknown tome; is it a distinct species? I cannot examine
the authority reported by Mr. Westwood : I saw the identical
specimen figured by Palisot Beauv., in the collection of De Selys
Longchamps ; it differs a little from Ch. pectinicornis Linn. ; but
I neglected to make a more complete description of it.
5. Ch. serricornis !
Chauliodes serricornis Say, Long's Exped. II, Append. 307.
Fuscous ; head rufous, the disk fuscous, the occiput with flat
rufous streaks ; antenna? black, serrate ; prothorax each side with
an impressed, rufous spot ; feet luteo-fuscous, the tarsi obscurer ;
/ ,
CHAULIODES. 191
wings nigro-fuscous, the longitudinal veins obscure, marked with
black ; anterior wings with a broad, white band, pointed with
fuscous, not attaining the posterior margin, an apical marginal
spot, and some of the transverse veins with white spots ; posterior
wings with a broad, arcuated band, not attaining the posterior
margin, and a larger anal spot, also an apical small spot, and
sometimes the transverse veins spotted, white.
Length to tip of wings 40 millini. Alar expanse 66 millim.
Hab. Arkansas (Nuttall) ; Pennsylvania ; Missouri ; Lake of the
Woods (Bigsby) ;' Red River of Lake Winnipeg, always rare
(Say) ; Xew York (collection of Hagen) ; Maryland (Uhler) ;
Mexico (Muehlenpfordt).
The Mexican specimen has a narrower band, and none to the
posterior wings.
6. Ch. maculatus !
Neuromus maculatus Eamb. ! Neuropt. 442, 3, tab. x, fig. 2 ; Walker !
Catal. 202, 1. — Chauliodes serricornis Burm.! Hanclb. II, 949, 1.
Black ; occiput with flat, ferruginous streaks and spots; antennre
black, serrate ; thorax fuscous, impressed each side ; feet nigro-
fuscous ; wings black, a transverse interrupted, middle line, dilated
at the anterior margin, but not attaining the posterior margin,
and some apical spots, white.
Length to tip of wings 30 — 36 millim. Alar expanse 45 — 55
millim. /
Hab. Philadelphia ; Savannah ; Massachusetts (Scudder) ;
Maryland (Uhler).
I saw a male from Massachusetts, communicated to me by Mr.
Uhler under the name of Ch. imifasciatus, which differs a little ;
the occipital streaks are black ; a band on the anterior wings
broader, white, not attaining the margin, and with one apical
point. Is it a distinct species ?
7. Ch. angusticollis !
Chauliodes angusticollis Hagen !
Fusco-testaceous ; antennae of the male nodulose, erectly-villose,
of the female moniliform ; occiput with flat, fulvous streaks and
spots ; prothorax narrow, a middle stripe posteriorly, and each
side a lateral one, fulvous ; feet fuscous ; wings gray, confertly
192 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
marked with brownish-black points ; appendages of the male stout,
oblique, obtuse. (J1 and 9).
Length to tip of wings 35 — 42 millim. Alar expanse 60 — 70
millim.
Hob. Dalton, Georgia ; Berkeley Springs, Virginia (Osten
Sacken) ; Northern Illinois (Robt. Kennicott).
CORYDALIS LATREILLB.
Prothorax quadrangular, much narrower than the head ; three
large, approximate ocelli ; antennas filiform ; mandibles of the
male often extremely long, incurved ; wings numerously veined ;
the transverse veins stout ; appendages of the male forcipated ;
tarsi cylindrical.
The larva is aquatic, furnished with abdominal branchiae.
1. C. cornuta!
Rapliidia cornuta Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 916, 3. — Hemerobius cornutus
Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. X, 551,14; De Geer, Mem. Ill, 559,1; tab.
xxvii, fig. 1 ; Fab. Sp. Ins. I, 392, 1 ; Mant. Ins. I, 246, 1 ; Entorn.
Syst. II, 81, 1; Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. XIII. V, 2639,20.— Corydalis
cornuta Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. Ill, 199, 1 ; Palisot Beauv. Ins.
Neuropt. tab. i, fig. 1 ; Oliv. Enc. Meth. VII, 59 ; Burm.! Handb.
II, 950, 1 ; Cuvier, Icon. Regn. Anim. ed. Masson. tab. civ. — Corydalus
cornutus Haldem. Journ. Acad. Boston, 1848, 158 ; tab. i — iii.
Luteo-fuscous ; mandibles of the male elongated ; head large,
broad, the sides convex ; the occiput with impressed, yellow spots
and streaks, which are surrounded with fuscous; beneath, each
side, with an oblique yellow stripe ; prothorax much narrower
than the head, a little longer than broad, behind in the middle,
with a hastiform streak, and each side with irregular, elevated, flat
points, yellow; feet lurid, the knees, and the apex and incisures
of the tarsi fuscous ; the males have four appendages, the superior
ones forcipated, infracted at the apex, dolabrate ; wings subcinereo-
hyaline, the veins fuscous, middle of the transverse ones, on the
anterior row of costal spaces, pale, the areoles each with two white
dots ; those of the disk with white points.
Length to tip of wings 75 millim. Alar expanse 100 — 135
millim.
Hob. Canada; Pennsylvania; New York ; Madrid; Carolina;
Northern Illinois (Kennicott) ; Maryland (Uhler).
CORYDALIS. 193
2. C. lutea !
Corydalis lutea Hagen t
Luteous ; mandibles impressed at base superiorly, transversely
sulcated, of the male a little elongated ; head large, broad, ferru-
ginous, the sides convex; the occiput with obsolete, luteous spots;
prothorax much narrower than the head, longer than broad, each
side of the middle obsoletely impressed, luteous spots behind and
at the sides ; feet lurid, base of the tibia?, base and apex of the
first and second articles of the tarsi, and the other articles entirely
nigro-fuscous ; male with four appendages, the superior ones
cylindrical, long, oblique, truncated at the apex; the inferior ones
recurved at the apex, clavate ; wings luteo-hyaline, veins luteous,
partly fuscous, with a few .white points. (J1 and 9.)
Length of body 70 — 85 millim. Alar expanse 110 — 140 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Salle) ; Cordova (Saussure).
3. C. cognata!
Corydalis cognata Hagen !
Luteous-yellow ; male with elongated mandibles ; head large,
broad, the sides convex ; the occiput behind with two punctate
ochraceous streaks and a few obsolete points ; prothorax almost
quadrangular, a little narrower than the head, behind with a hasti-
form streak upon the middle, and lateral, elevated ochraceous
points ; feet lurid, apex of the tarsi obscurer, nails fuscous ; wings
yellowish-hyaline, the transverse veins fuscous ; upon the base and
apex of the costal space, a fuscous mark ; costal areoles with a
single white point, the other areoles with a series of white points,
at the radius clouded with fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 60 millim. Alar expanse 100 millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope's Expedition).
4. C. soror !
Corydalis soror Hagen !
Luteous; mandibles of the male not elongated; head broad, de-
pressed, the sides flat, with an alate, bidentate process ; a fuscous
stripe each side ; antennse short, slender, black, the two basal arti-
cles yellowish ; prothorax narrower than the head, longer than
broad, each side with a fuscous, trifoveolated stripe ; feet lurid, the
knees and apex of the tarsi obscurer ; appendages of the male four,
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194 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
the superior ones forcipated, clavate at the apex, the inferior ap-
pendages extremely short, cylindrical ; wings luteo-subhyaline, an
obsolete band upon the middle of the anterior ones, and some spots
nearer the apex, fuscous ; veins fuscous, luteous upon the middle
of the costal space. (J1 and ?.)
Length to tip of wings 60 — 75 millim. Alar expanse 85 — 130
millim.
Hob. Mexico (Koppe) ; Cordova (Saussure).
5. C. hieroglyphica!
Neuromus hieroglyphicus Ramb. ! Neuropt. 442, 2. Hermes hieroglyphicus
Walk. ! Catal. 206, 12.
Pale yellow; mandibles of the male not elongated; antennas
black, with the base yellow; head with the sides convex; pro-
thorax cylindrical ; occiput with two spots, prothorax with four,
and the mesothorax with two spots, black ; appendages of the
male, the superior ones longer, with the apex recurved ; the infe-
rior ones stout, with the apex clavated; feet yellow, base and apex
of the tibia?, and apex of the tarsi black ; wings yellowish-hyaline,
the transverse veins in part black ; the anterior wings spotted with
black posteriorly.
Length to tip of wings 40 — 63 millim. Alar expanse 64^—90
millim.
Hob. Mexico (Ehrenberg) ; Venezuela ; Brazil.
It varies very much in size and marking ; sometimes it is almost
unicolored, pale yellow.
RAPHIDIA
Prothorax cylindrical, long, much narrower than the head ; an-
tennae short, filiform ; wings with a pterostigma ; anal space of the
posterior wings very small, inflexed ; the third article of the tarsi
dilated, bilobed ; the fourth article extremely short, cylindrical ;
vagina of the female long, ensiforra.
Larva living under bark.
Three ocelli.
RAPHIDIA. 195
1. Raph. adnixa!
Raphidia adnixa Hagen !
Rufous ; head brownish-black, scabrous, long, sensibly narrowed
behind, the occiput with a flat streak ; antennae rufous, the apex
fuscous ; prothorax long, narrow, rufous ; feet rufous ; abdomen
rufous, the ventral segments having the posterior margin black ;
wings hyaline, veins fuscous ; pterostigma long, narrow, trapezoid,
occupying two areolets, yellow; subpterostigmatical areole almost
one-half longer within, truncated ; outer equal, broken ; a series
of five areoles beneath the pterostigma. (J* and 9.)
Length to tip of wings 16 millim. Alar expanse 23 inillim.
Hab. California; Oregon (Willcox, Berlin Museum).
A female from Oregon has the dorsal base of the prothorax
blackish-brown, with a trifid rufous spot; the colors of the male
are not perfected.
2. Raph. oblita!
Raphidia oblita Hagen !
Fusco-aeneous ; head scabrous, shorter, posteriorly suddenly
compressed, occiput with a flat streak ; antennas with the basal
article nigro-fuscous, second yellowish, the rest — ? prothorax
short, rufo-fuscous, upon the dorsal middle posteriorly, a large,
ovate, nigro-fuscous spot; feet rufo-fuscous ; abdomen brassy-black,
the ventral segments having the posterior margin yellow ; wings
hyaline, veins fulvous ; pterostigma long (shorter than in Raph.
adnixa), narrow, trapezoidal, occupying two areolets, yellow; sub-
pterostigmatical areole almost one-half longer within, truncated,
outwards equal, truncated ; a series of five areolets beneath the
pterostigma.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hab. California.
3. Raph. media!
Raphidia media Burm. Handb. II, 964, 3. Schneider! Monogr. 76, 4.
(With the synonymy.)
Brownish-black; head obovate, the sides rounded, mouth yellow;
neck short ; vertex punctured, with a flat rufous streak ; base of
the antennae yellow ; 'prothorax black : feet testaceous, base of the
anterior femora, and the whole of the posterior ones black; abdo-
men black; wings yellowish-hyaline, especially at base; veins fus-
196 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
cous; pterostigma trapezoidal, luteo-fuscous, occupying three are-
olets, with an internal hyaline spot; subpterostigmatical areolet
exteriorly almost equal, interiorly one-half longer; five areolets
beneath the pterostigma.
Length to tip of wings 19 millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hob. North America (Knoch, Berlin Museum. One female).
It is a common species in Europe.
f f Ocelli wanting. (Inocellia Schneider.)
4. Raph. inflata!
Raphidia inflata Hagen !
Fusco-aeneous; head quadrangular, the disk impressed, opaque;
base of the mandibles, two broad approximate streaks, and three
occipital spots each side, fulvous ; prothorax short, conical, two
arcuated, transverse rugse; feet lurid, femora above, and the apex
of the tibiae fuscous; abdomen black, middle beneath yellow; pos-
terior margin of the dorsal segments pointed with yellow; vagina
black ; wings hyaline, veins black ; pterostigma short, almost ob-
long, the exterior side a little oblique, occupying one areolet, black;
subpterostigmatical areolet equal within, longer without; a series
of three areolets beneath the pterostigma.
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 24 millim.
Hob. California.
FAM. VIII. HEMEROBINA.
Body usually cylindrical, narrow; wings large, numerously
veined, the posterior ones with no anal space; tarsi with five
articles; ocelli commonly absent.
Larva with a haustellate mouth.
ALEURONIA FITCH.
Covered with whitish powder ; eyes reniform ; antennae monili-
form ; wings ciliated, longitudinal veins few, transverse ones almost
absent.
1. A. westwoodii.
Aleuronia westwoodii Asa Fitch, Report I, 98.
Covered with whitish powder; black, head depressed anteriorly,
antennae with 28 articles, shorter than the body, moniliform, black,
CONIOPTERYX — SISYRA. 197
not powdered ; abdomen yellowish ; feet pale ; wings broad, the
apex rounded, the anterior ones with six longitudinal veins, two
of them forked ; posterior ones with five longitudinal veins, the
second and third joined together by a transverse vein ; wings cili-
ated at the apex and posteriorly. (From the description of Dr.
Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 2£ millim.
Hob. United States, in June and July.
CONIOPTERYX HALIDAY.
Powdered with whitish, eyes globose, antennae moniliform ; wings
not ciliated, longitudinal veins few, some transverse veins ; poste-
rior wings of the male small.
C. vicina !
Coniopteryx vicina Hagen !
Covered with grayish powder; black, head rounded, antennae -?
feet lurid ; wings broader at the apex, rounded, eight longitudinal
veins, three and four forked, all joined together by a single trans-
verse vein.
Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Alar expanse 6 millim.
Hab. Washington (Osten Sacken). The only specimen seen is
mutilated.
SISYRA B0RM.
Antennas moniliform ; subcosta and radius of the wings joined
together at the apex ; costal space of the base of the anterior
wings with no recurrent vein ; transverse veins almost absent.
Larva aquatic.
S. vicaria.
Hemerobius vicarius Walk. Catal. 297, 65.
Ferruginous, antennae pale, abdomen obscurer, feet testaceous ;
wings fuscous, fche anterior ones obscurer. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 5? millim. Alar expanse 9 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
198 NETJROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
MEGALOMUS RAJIBCR.
Antennae moniliform; wings with the subcosta and radius joined
together at the apex, the costal space of the anterior wings strongly
dilated, with a forked, recurrent vein ; transverse veins in a grada-
tive series; the last article of the maxillary palpi subulate.
M. pictus !
Alegalomus pictus Hagen !
Fuscous, hairy, face fusco-aeneous, palpi luteous ; occiput fus-
cous, varied with black ; antennae luteous, the first article entirely,
and the apex of the second, brownish-black ; dorsum of the pro-
ancl inesothorax blackish-fuscous ; feet and abdomen luteous ;
wings broad, the apex obtuse, luteo-hyaline ; the anterior wings
with three gradate series of veins, the second series of which is
fuscous; veins luteous, all pointed with fuscous, some larger points
at the anterior and posterior margins, at the radius and at the ex-
ternal series of gradate veins ; posterior wings yellow-hyaline,
clouded with cinereous at the anterior margin and before the apex.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 15 millim.
Hub. Mexico (Deppe).
MICROMUS RAMBUK.
Antennae moniliform ; wings with the subcosta and radius joined
together at the apex ; costal space of the anterior wings narrowed
at base, no recurrent vein, transverse series gradate ; last article
of the maxillary palpi not subulate.
* Wings excised at the apex.
1. M. flavicornis !
Hemerobius flavicornis Walk. Catal. 278, 4.
Luteous, ciliated ; head and thorax luteous, pointed with fus-
cous, antenna? yellow ; abdomen piceous, with two cylindrical
appendages (male ?); feet pale, with long pile, freckled with nu-
merous fuscous points ; apex of the wings excised, hamate, pilose,
hyaline, a little clouded with fuscous ; pterostigma yellow, fuscous
at each side, apical margin of the anterior wings fuscescent; veins
white, thickly pointed with brown ; transverse veins of the costal
MICROMUS. 199
space forked; six sectors; the discoidal series of veins six-gradate,
the four intermediate ones joined together ; posterior wings with
a fuscous point at the posterior margin.
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 20 millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken) ; Georgia (Abbot).
2. M. hamatus.
Hernerobius hamatus Walk. Catal. 278, 5.
*
Testaceous; antenna? yellowish, feet pale; wings subhyaline,
sprinkled with fuscous,, the apex excised, subhamate. (From the
description of Walker.) It is similar to the preceding, but the
costal space is narrower.
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 20 millim.
Hub. North America.
* * Apex of the wings rounded.
3. M, areolaris !
Mieromus areolaris Hagen !
Yellowish ; head rufous, antennas black, thorax fuscous ; feet
yellow ; apex of the wings ovate, yellow-hyaline, veins sparingly
pilose, partly yellow, fuscous upon the disk and posterior margin,
areoles of the last-named areas streaked with fuscous ; two series
of areolets, four-gradate, infracted ; pterostigma yellow, each side
fuscous; posterior wings yellow-hyaline ; (reticulation irregular.)
Length to tip of wings 6 millim. Alar expanse 11 millim.
Hob. Florida, in March (Osten Sacken.)
4. M. insipidus !
Mieromus insipidus Hagen !
Luteous ; sparely pilose, head and thorax varied with fuscous,
antenna? pale ; abdomen luteous ; feet pale, anterior tibia? with
two fuscous bands ; wings hyaline, anterior ones obsoletely striated
with fuscous; veins pale, with fuscous interruptions; four sectors;
two series, 6 and 4 gradate, infracted.
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 18 millim.
Hab. New York ; Philadelphia.
5. M. sobrius !
Mieromus sobrius Hagen !
Pale ; sparely pilose; antenna? whitish-yellow, the apex obscurer;
200 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
head and thorax pale luteous ; feet pale, white; wings whitish-
hyaline, the anterior ones rnarmorated with fuscous ; veins white,
sparely interrupted with fuscous; gradate veins 6 and 4 brownish-
black.
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse It millim.
Hob. Chicago (Osten Sacken).
HEMEROBIUS
Antennas moniliform, wings with the subcosta and radius joined
together at the apex ; costal space of the anterior wings broader
at base, with a recurrent, forked vein ; transverse series gradate,
broken ; maxillary palpi with the last article subulate.
f One sector.
1. H. longicollis.
Hemerobius longicollis Walk. Catal. 281, 12.
Piceous, hairy ; head ferruginous, antennas luteous, a little
longer than the body; prothorax much longer than broad, nar-
rower anteriorly ; tricarinated ; feet testaceous ; wings subcine-
reous, the anterior ones obsoletely clouded with fuscous ; ptero-
stigma lurid ; transverse costal veins few, radius widely distant
from the subcosta ; one trifurcated sector ; first gradate series
interrupted, second almost absent ; posterior wings short, pale.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot). An irregular species ; it seems to be
allied to Micromus areolaris.
f f Two sectors.
2. H. amiculus.
Hemerobius amiculus Asa Fitch, Report I, 95.
Fuscous; antennas yellowish, feet whitish; wings hyaline, irregu-
larly clouded and spotted with fuscous ; margin of the anterior
wings pointed with black; veins fuscous pointed with black; gra-
date series banded with fuscous; posterior wings pale. (From the
description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 7? millim. Alar expanse 12 raillim.
HEMEROBIUS. 201
Hal. New York; Illinois; May to October (Asa Fitch). On
peach trees and wild shrubs.
3. H. occidentalis.
Hemerobius occidentalis Asa Fitch, Report I, 95.
Blackish; antennas shorter than the body, black; feet pale; wings
hyaline, the areoles with two obscure parallel lines; margin obscure;
veins stout, black, transverse veins almost as in the preceding spe-
cies. (From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 5? millim. Alar expanse 8 millim.
Hob. Henderson River, Illinois; October (Asa Fitch). (Wash-
ington, June. The antennae of this specimen, g ?, are longer than
the body, and their basal third only, black, the remainder pale.
Osten Sacken.)
Schioedte Berlin, Ent. Zeit. Ill, p. 143, reports Hemerobius
obscurus Zett. Ins. Lapp. 1063, 12, from Greenland; I have not
seen the specimens, nor is that species known to me.
4. H. delicatulus.
Hemerobius delicatulus Fitch, Report I, 96.
Obscure yellow ; antennae longer than the body, fuscous ; feet
pale; wings hyaline, veins fuscous, pointed obscurely; single gra-
date series banded with fuscous. (From the description of Dr.
Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 6? millim. Alar expanse 10 millim.
Hob. Illinois; October (Asa Fitch).
f f f Three sectors.
5. H. alternatus.
Hemerobius alternatus Fitch, Report I, 93.
White or yellowish; varied with fuscous, with fulvous pile; head
in front and thorax each side with a blackish-fuscous stripe ; abdo-
men whitish, each side with a longitudinal white stripe, which is
margined above with a series of brown points, and below by a
brown line; wings hyaline, iridescent, veins interrupted black and
white; gradate series black, stout, marked with fuliginous; poste-
rior wings pale, sparingly marked with black. (From the descrip-
tion of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 11? millim. Alar expanse 20 millim.
Hob. New York ; June (Asa Fitch). Upon pine and hemlock
bushes.
202 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
6. H. stigmaterus.
Hemerobius stigmaterus Fitch, Report I, 93.
Luteous ; head and antennas luteous, feet pale ; thorax and ab-
domen fuscous; wings hyaline, anterior ones with black veins, which
are banded with white; areoles fuinose, with hyaline points; ptero-
stigma fulvous ; two gradate series, black. (From the description
of Dr. Fitch.)
Var. Apex of the abdomen yellowish, or \vith a pale lateral
streak.
Length to tip of wings 8 — 10 niillim. Alar expanse 15 — 18 mil-
lira.
Hob. North America, Northern and Western States ; common
from March to October (Asa Fitch).
7. H. castaneae.
Hemerobius castaneae Fitch, Report I, 94.
Whitish ; head with a spot beneath each eye, thorax each side
with a stripe, and the abdomen with lateral spots, fuscous ; wings
hyaline, the margin a little dusky; veins whitish, interruptedly
black, two gradate series black; a basal larger spot, another smaller,
and the bases of the series of discoidal veins black.
The color of the veins often varies ; they are sometimes either
black, fuscous, or with fulvous interruptions ; sometimes deep black,
and the discoidal spots are confluent into a vitta. (From the de-
scription of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 18 niillim.
Hob. Northern and Northwestern States, everywhere common,
from April to October (Asa Fitch). Upon chestnut, walnut, and
other trees.
8. H. tutatrix !
Hemerobius tutatrix Fitch, Report I, 94.
Yellow; head each side with an external fascia beneath the eyes;
thorax each side with three spots, which sometimes are confluent,
forming a stripe, fuscous; antenna a little annulated with fuscous;
feet yellowish; wings hyaline, veins whitish, interrupted with fus-
cous, Y-shaped clouds of a fuscous color upon the areoles, having
the angle on the fuscous interruptions, and the open side towards
the apex of the wing ; two series of transverse nervures, 7 and 6
gradate, black ; a black point at base.
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Length to tip of wings 9 millira. Alar expanse 16 raillim.
Hal. New York, September (Asa Fitch), upon apple trees ;
Washington, June (Osten Sacken); California.
9. H. conjunctus.
Hemerobius conjunctus Fitcli, Report I, 94.
Wings hyaline, the margin infuscated ; veins white, interrupted
with Mack, and banded; gradate veins, the two internal ones ex-
cepted, banded with fuscous, a black point at the base of the dis-
coidal veins; posterior wings immaculate. The spots of the wings
are almost as in H. alternatus, but the margin is immaculate.
(From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 14 millim.
Hab. New York, May (Asa Fitch), upon pine bushes.
10. H. pinidumus.
Hemerobius pinidumus Fitch, Report, I, 95.
Yellowish; sides of the thorax fuscous; wings hyaline, a little
fumose, the margin with fuscous points; veins white, interrupted
with fuscous; gradate series black, clouded with fuscous; three or
four of the gradate veins forming a maculose band across the disk ;
similar to H. tutatrix, differing in the basal reticulation. (From
the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 12 millim.
Hab. New York, May to July ; common (Asa Fitch) upon pine
bushes.
11. H. hyalinatus.
Hemerobius hyalinatus Fitch, Report, I, 95.
Similar to the preceding, perhaps a variety of it; wings more
hyaline, veins finely interrupted with fuscous ; gradate veins un-
colored, not banded with fuscous; reticulation a little different.
(From the description of Asa Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 12 millim.
Hab. New York, May to July (Asa Fitch); upon pine bushes.
12. H. subanticus.
Hemerobius subanticus Walk. Catal. 282, 13.
Ferruginous ; head testaceous in front; antenna? paler ; feet tes-
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taceous; wings sublurid, narrow, veins testaceous, dotted with fus-
cous, two interrupted, fuscous gradate series, which are clouded
with fuscous ; sectors of the radius 1 and 2 bifurcated, 3 unifurcated.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 6 millim. Alar expanse 11 millim.
Hob. St. John's Bluff, East Florida (Doubleday).
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13. H. posticus.
Hemerobius posticus Walk. Catal. 283, 15.
Ferruginous; head paler; antennae testaceous, longer than the
body ; wings subhyaline, the anterior ones clouded with fuscous,
especially at the apex and posterior margin ; veins pale testaceous,
interrupted with fuscous ; two complete series of gradate veinlets,
which are fuscous, and clouded with fuscous; three bifurcate sec-
tors; posterior wings with two complete series of gradate veinlets,
the internal one of which is fuscous, and clouded with fuscous.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 14 — 16 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
14. H. citrinus !
Hemerobius citrinus Hagen !
Yellow; occiput each side, and the sides of the prothorax, fus-
cous; feet yellow ; wings yellow-hyaline, veins yellow, pointed with
fuscous ; gradate veins (6 and 5) yellow.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 18 millim.
Hal. North America (Knoch ; Berlin Museum).
15. H. simulans.
Hemerobius simulans Walk. Catal. 285, 22.
Piceous; head ferruginous; antennae piceous, ferruginous at
base; prothorax short, broad; feet testaceous; wings cinereous,
the anterior ones clouded with fuscous, veins black; two gradate
series almost contiguous, banded with fuscous; sector 1 unifurcated,
sector 2 bifurcated, sector 3 trifurcated. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 14 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton).
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16. H. marginatus?
Hemerobius marginatus Walk. Catal. 286, 23.
Pale ochreous ; wings white, with the transverse veins, and some
clouds at the internal margin, fuscous ; sectors 1 and 2 unifurcated,
3 quadrifurcated. (From the description of Walker.) I believe
it to be different from the European insect of this name.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman).
17. H. humuli ?
Hemerobius humuli Walk. Catal. 286, 24.
Pale ochreous; antennae annulatecl with fuscous and white; feet
pale; wings hyaline, sparingly pointed with fuscous; sectors 1 and
2 unifurcated, 3 trifurcated. (From the description of Walker.)
I believe it to be different from the European species of this name.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 14 millim.
Hub. Georgia (Abbot).
18. H. crispus?
Hemerobius crispus Walk. Catal. 288, 31.
Testaceous; sides of the thorax and the abdomen obscurer;
wings opaline, narrow, the anterior ones spotted with fuscous,
transverse veins fuscous; posterior wings immaculate; sectors 1
and 2 unifurcated, 3 trifurcated. (From the description of Wal-
ker.) I believe it to be different from the European species of this
name.
Length to tip of wings 7 millira. Alar expanse 12 millim.
Hal. North America; Nova Scotia (Redman).
19. H. obliterates.
Hemerobius obliteratus Walk. Catal. 289, 35.
Testaceous; antenna? longer than the body, fuscous, annulated
with whitish, the apex fuscous; the basal article testaceous; feet
pale testaceous; wings subhyaline, the anterior ones hardly clouded
with fuscous; veins testaceous, interrupted with fuscous; gradate
series two, broken, banded with fuscous ; sectors 1 and 2 unifur-
cated, 3 trifurcated. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 12 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
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20. H. neglectus !
Hemerobius neglectus Hagen !
Yellow; head and sides of the prothorax fuscous ; antennae and
feet pale yellow; wings luteo-fuscous, the anterior ones densely
streaked with whitish-hyaline ; veins luteous, pointed with black
and fuscous ; 6 and 5 of the gradate veins luteous.
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 20 ruillim.
Hob. Mexico (Ehrenberg ; Berlin Museum).
f 1 1 1 F°ur sectors.
21. H. longifrons.
Hemerobius longifrons Walk. Catal. 291, 40.
Testaceous, marked with fuscous ; antennas longer than the body,
fuscous annulated with pale ; abdomen piceous ; feet pale testace-
ous; wings cinereous, anterior ones with three oblique, interrupted
fasciae, and marginal spots, black ; veins pale testaceous, inter-
rupted with black ; gradate series two, broken ; sector 3 unifur-
cated. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 10 millira. Alar expanse 18 millim.
Jfab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
FOLYSTOECHOTES BCRM.
Antennas short, moniliform ; subcosta and radius of the wings
confluent at the apex ; costal space of the anterior wings broader
at base, with a recurrent vein, forked ; a gradate series of several
transverse veins ; last article of the maxillary palpi truncated.
Larva perhaps aquatic.
1. P. punctatus!
Semblis punctata Fab. ! Eiitorn. Syst. II, 73, 4. — Hemerobius nebulosus
Fab. Entoin. Syst. Suppl. 202, 1 — 2. — Hemerobius irroratus Say,
Long's Exped. II, 306, 1 ; Asa Fitch, Report, I, 92. — Polystoechotes
slicticus Burm. Hand. II, 982, 1; Walk. Catal. 231, I.—Osmylus
validus Walk.! Catal. 233, 3.
Piceous, hairy; mouth testaceous; antennas piceous, with the
base testaceous; head and thorax clothed with gray hair; feet
hairy, testaceous, the anterior ones annulated with fuscous, apex
of the tarsal articles fuscous ; abdomen piceous, beneath fuscous ;
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wings cinereous, subhyaline, the anterior ones marked with fuscous
upon the margin ; veins white, with fuscous interruptions ; poste-
rior wings immaculate; sector 1 seventeen-branched.
Length to tip of wings 28 — 38 millim. Alar expanse 52 — 76
millim.
Hob. North West Territory; Lake Erie, common (Say) ; North
Red River (Kennicott) ; New York, July, rare (Asa Fitch) ;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington (Osten Sacken); Cali-
fornia; Texas; Fort Steilacoom, Puget Sound (Dr. Suckley) ;
Maryland (Uhler). I saw the specimen described by Fabricius in
Bank's Museum.
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2. P. vittatus.
Hemerobius vittatus Say, Long's Exped. II, 307, 2; Asa Fitch, Report,
I, 92.
Pale yellow ; head with a quadrangular black spot between the
eyes ; antennae yellowish-red, the base and apex black ; thorax
greenish-white, the sides with a black vitta; wings hyaline, pointed
with black ; costal veins white, with black interruptions ; ptero-
stigma small, whitish ; posterior wings almost immaculate, at the
middle of the anterior margin a large orbicular spot, and another
apical, smaller } feet black, base of the femora, an apical ring upon
the posterior ones, and an apical ring upon the posterior tibiae,
pale ; abdomen black, a small, dorsal, pale spot upon the segments.
(From the description of Say.)
Length to tip of wings 30 millim. Alar expanse 55 millim.
Hab. Pennsylvania, New Jersey (Titian Peale, Say).
MANTISPA ILLIGEK.
Antennas short ; prothorax elongated, cylindrical ; anterior feet
stout, raptatorial ; wings narrow, subcosta and costa confluent at
the middle of the anterior margin.
1. M. brunnea!
Mantispa brunnea Say, Long's Exped. II, 309 ; Amer. Entom. II, tab. xxv ;
Erichson, Germar's Zeitschrift, 1, 161, 2 ; Westwood. Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond. ser. 2, 1, 253, 2 ; Walk.! Catal. 214, 2.— Mantispa varia Erich.!
Germar's Zeitschr. I, 161, 3 ; Westw. Trans. But. Soc. ser. 2, 1, 253,
3 ; Walker ! Catal. 214, 3 ; Hagen ! Stettin. Ent. Zeit. XX, 406.
Color very variable; fuscous, varied with black and yellow;
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head fuscous, a transverse streak at the base of the antennae, and
another, occipital, sometimes absent, black ; antennae fuscous, base
and extreme apex yellowish ; prothorax varying in robustness,
anteriorly broadest, upon the middle transversely rugose, narrower
between the anterior and posterior tubercles, fuscous; with a
broad, transverse, yellow band behind the black anterior margin ;
or with a triangular yellow spot at base, before a black band; or
with the middle also yellow; mesothorax fuscous, or fuscous mar-
gined with yellow; abdomen fuscous or yellow, base above and
beneath black; anterior feet entirely rufo-fuscous, or with the
femora black, tibiae black inside, outside sometimes with a longi-
tudinal black stripe ; intermediate feet yellowish-red, with the
femora obscure, or yellowish, the femora black, with the apex
yellowish; tibiae behind the base, banded with fuscous ; tarsi some-
times (perhaps the other sex) with two broad lamelliform, yellow-
ish lobes, which are rounded at the apex ; (I have not seen this
to be the case but in two specimens ; types of M. brunnea Erich-
son, and of Uhler ;) posterior feet the same color as the intermediate
ones, with no lobes ; wings fuscous, the posterior half hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 18 — 34 millim. Alar expanse 30 — 34
millim.
ffab. Xorth West Territory (Say); N. Illinois (Kennicott);
Philadelphia (Say) ; Georgia (Abbot) ; St. John's Bluff, E. Flo-
rida; Fort Steilacoom, Puget Sound; Mexico (Deppe); Central
America.
I have seen many specimens ; I believe the species of Say and
Erichson not to be different ; Mr. Say describes both sexes, but
does not appear to have observed the remarkable lobes of the tarsi.
(The tarsal lobes are not characteristic of sex, but are found
present in both males and females ; the membranous character of
these lobes, and their great delicacy seems to render them liable to
disappear, by shrinking or accident; this probably accounts for
their absence in most of the specimens observed by Dr. Hagen ; in
a specimen which I examined the one middle tarsus had the lobes
beautifully apparent, while on the opposite tarsus only a vestige
was present ; on another tarsus only a white membrane was appa-
rent ; when well conditioned, the lobes are obvious upon both the
middle and posterior tarsi. The male has robust, cylindrical, hairy
anal appendages, superiorly, which will abundantly distinguish the
sex. Uhler.)
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2. M. interrupta !
Mantispa interrupta Say, Amer. Entomol. II, tab. xxv ; Erichs. Germ.
Zeits. I, 171, 21 ; Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, I, 255, 21 ; Walk.
Catal. 219, 21.
Yellowish; antennae black, yellow at base; head yellow in front,
with a black line upon the middle ; posteriorly black, exteriorly
yellow; a streak upon the middle, and a spot each side, yellow;
prothorax long, slender, tuberculous, yellowish-fuscous ; the apical
and basal margin, and a longitudinal dorsal line, black ; mesotho-
rax fuscous, varied with yellow; abdomen fuscous (mutilated);
feet yellowish, the anterior femora exteriorly and interiorly striated
with fuscous, tibiae and tarsi black ; posterior femora interiorly at
base with a fuscous line, intermediate tibiae with a fuscous ring ;
wings hyaline, veins black, subcosta fuscous; pterostigma long,
brownish-black.
Length to tip of wings 23 millinu Alar expanse 36 millim.
Hob. Philadelphia (Say, Uhler) ; Virginia (Uhler).
This species is very rare ; I have seen only one specimen ; the
words of Mr. Say, " On the submargin is an irregular, quadrate,
dark, fuscous spot, confluent with the carpus," do not agree with
my specimen.
(The species varies in sometimes wanting the quadrate brown
spot of the wings ; the tarsal lobes are apparent in this species, in
common with the preceding : I have seen a specimen in which the
apical spot of the wings is absent. The abdomen is generally yel-
lowish, with dorsal, triangular, black spots. Uhler.)
3. M. viridis.
Mantispa viridis Walk. Catal. 227, 47.
Green or yellow, with a reddish stripe each side, along the whole
length of the body ; face varied with rufous ; antennae reddish ;
prothorax long, slender, broader anteriorly; wings hyaline, veins
pale, dotted with black. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 13 ? millim. Alar expanse 18 millim.
Hub. East Florida.
Walker, Catal. 215, 7, reports M. prolixa, from Georgia; I saw
the specimen, but M. prolixa Erichson, is a different species. The
locality of Mr. Walker's species is doubtful.
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4. M. moesta!
Mantispa moesta Hagen !
Brownish-black ; palpi fuscous ; face fuscous, transversely ru-
gose ; front depressed, rufous, a spot between the antennae, a black
band posteriorly; antennae fuscous; prothorax dilated anteriorly,
luteous, margined with black ; posteriorly narrower, cylindrical,
transversely sulcated; abdomen black, apex of segments 1 and
2 margined with yellow ; 3 and 4 polished at base, with very nu-
merous red points ; anterior feet black, first article of the tarsi
exteriorly varied with yellow ; posterior femora fuscous, with the
apex yellow, tibiae yellow, with an external fuscous spot ; wings
fuscous, shining ; twelve discoidal areoles ; a gradate vein upon
areoles 6 and 7. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 21 millim. Alar expanse 41 millim.
Hob. Tennessee (Saussure).
MELEOMA FITCH.
A genus not seen by me, allied to Chrysopa, but the bases of
the antennae are distant, and there is an intermediate frontal horn.
(Asa Fitch.)
1. M. signoretii.
Mtleoma signoretii Fitch, Report I, 82.
Yellowish-green, pale, sparingly pilose ; between the antenna a
cylindrical horn, which is longer than the basal joint of the an-
tennte, defiexed anteriorly into a lamina, upon the middle of which
is a black tooth ; face each side with a fuscous spot, antennae pale
fuscous, the two basal articles green, the first elongated, thicker ;
base of the prothorax elevated ; feet whitish, tarsi yellowish, with
the apex black ; apex of the wings a little angulated, hyaline,
pterostigma a little opaque ; veins whitish, gradate veins, and
transverse ones of the interior side of the radius, black. (From
the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 15 ? millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hob. Mt. Antonio, Rupert, Vermont, July (Asa Fitch).
2. M. longicornis.
Osmylus longicornis Walk. Catal. 235, 8.
Testaceous, somewhat marked with fuscous ; antenna? longer
CHRYSOPA. 211
than the wings, straw-colored, slender, a little pubescent ; feet
straw-colored ; wings hyaline, long, narrow; the anterior ones with
whitish veins, which are interrupted with fuscous ; veins of the
posterior wings whitish ; fuscous points between the radius and
subcosta. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 22 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hal}. Georgia (Abbot).
Does it belong to this genus ? I saw the specimen, and noted
"that it belonged to Chrysopa."
CHRYSOPA LEACH.
Antenna? setiform, long ; subcosta and radius of the wings not
conjoined at the apex ; the costal space of the anterior wings nar-
row at base, no recurrent vein ; transverse veins in gradate, con-
tinuous series ; the last article of the maxillary palpi compressed
at the apex, narrowed.
f Second article of the antennas with a black ring.
1. Ch. oculata !
Chrysopa oculata Say, Journ. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 45 ; Walk. Catal. 260,
56. — Chrysopa euryptera Burm. Handb. II, 980, 7; Schneider, MOD.
Chrys. 129, 39, tab. xlv. — Chrysopa omikron Fitch, Report I, 85.
Greenish-yellow ; antenna? yellowish, the apex obscure, the se-
cond article annulated with black, the first joint with a red, dorsal
spot or annulus ; head yellow, bases of the antenna? surrounded
with black rings, above upon the middle interrupted with sangui-
neous ; sides of the cheeks with a black streak ; occiput with four
black points, which are sometimes confluent into two lines ; the
anterior spots often conjoined with the rings around the antenna?,
each side behind the eyes with a black point ; prothorax each side
with three black points, forming two intermediate series, and two
more laterally, also black; wings hyaline, transverse veins of the
anterior ones almost entirely, or in part black.
Length to tip of wings 16 — 18 millim. Alar expanse 26 — 30
millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; United States (Say), extremely common ; common in June
(Asa Fitch) ; I have seen many specimens ; Washington (Osten
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Sacken); New York ; Savannah, Dalton, Georgia; Pennsylvania;
Virginia (Osten Sacken) ; Illinois (Kennicott) ; Maryland (Uhler) ;
New Orleans (Pfeiffer); Tennessee (Saussure).
2. Ch. illepida!
Chrysopa illepida Fitch, Report I, 84.
Very much like the preceding species, but the four occipital
spots are conjoined in two lines ; the anterior wings with the trans-
verse veins only of the costa, at their base and apex, the base of
the second sector, and the gradate veins, black.
Same size as the preceding species.
Hob. New York; Illinois, June (Asa Fitch); perhaps a variety
of the preceding.
3. Ch. albicornis.
Chrysopa albicornis Fitch, Report I, 84.
Very much like Ch. oculata, the four occipital black points con-
joined in two lines; the basal article of the antennae annulated with
sanguineous, the transverse veinlets of all the wings entirely, or in
part black. (From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Same size as the preceding.
Hcib. Mississippi, April (Asa Fitch); perhaps a variety.
4. Ch. chlorophana !
Chrysopa cldorophana Burm. Handb. II, 979, 1; Schneid.! Monog. Chrys.
127, 32, tab. xliv. — Chrysopa xanthocephala Fitch, Report I, 85.
Veiy much like Ch. illepida, head having the same picturation,
but differs in the wings being a little viridescent, the apex more
rounded, the pterostigma obscurer, and the cilia? of the veins longer.
Same size as preceding.
Ha b. New York ; Lake Michigan, June (Asa Fitch).
Its appearance is different; but it is difficult to be separated by
distinct marks. Further experience will decide whether the species
of Dr. Fitch can be justly separated from it.
5. Ch. fulvibucca.
Chrysopa fuh'ibucca Fitch, Report I, 86.
Very much like Ch. oculata, but differs in wanting the external
black streaks of the cheeks ; points of the prothorax variable.
(From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
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Same size as preceding.
Hob. New York, July and August. Perhaps a variety.
6. Ch. transmarina!
Chrysopa transmarina Hagen ! — Ch. chloropliana Walker! Catal. 259, 55.
Similar to Ch. chlorophana, but differs by wanting the two oc-
cipital middle points ; two well-defined spots at the eyes anteriorly
and two posteriorly; wings densely and longly ciliated, the trans-
verse veins entirely green, the costal ones hardly black at base.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 23 rnilliin.
Hob. La Chine, near Montreal (Barnston); C. St. John, New-
foundland ; Nova Scotia (Redman).
7. Ch. mississippiensis.
Chrysopa mississippiensis Fitch, Report I, 86.
Picturation of the head very much like that of the preceding-
species, but it differs in size ; the wings are rounded at the apex,
all the transverse veins or a part of them black. (From the de-
scription of Dr. Fitch.)
Alar expanse 33 millim.
Hab. Jackson, Mississippi, in April (Asa Fitch).
8. Ch. chi.
Chrysopa chi Fitch, Report I, 87.
Antenna? pale, the apex obscurer; at the base of the antenna?
an a?-shaped spot, two lateral spots each side, and an intermediate
point black; occiput with four black points in a transverse series;
prothorax and mesothorax with four black points, and a point at
the base of the anterior wings ; abdomen black, the apex pale ;
transverse veins black, those of the costal middle green ; posterior
wings with the transverse veins black, base of the first sector black,
the second sector black, green upon the middle. (From the de-
scription of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 19? millim. Alar expanse 34 miilim.
Hab. New York, June (Asa Fitch).
9. Ch. ypsilon !
Chrysopa ypsilon Fitch, Report I, 87.
Greenish-yellow, pale; antennas pale, the apex obscurer, the basal
article beneath with an apical black point, the second article with
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a black ring; between the antennae is a black T; a series of semi-
lunar streaks at the base of the antenna?, a quadrangular spot
before and a streak upon the sides of the cheeks, black; occiput
with four black points in a transverse series ; prothorax with four
quadrangular black spots, mesothorax with two, and a spot at the
bases of the anterior wings, black ; abdomen obscure green, the
segments with two dorsal, medial, fuscous points ; wings hyaline,
transverse veins black, green on the middle.
Length to tip of wings 16 millim. Alar expanse 29 millim.
Halt. New York, May, June (Asa Fitch) ; Washington (Osten
Sacken).
At first sight it resembles the preceding ; is it different ?
10. Ch. latipennis !
Chrysopa latipennis Schneid. Monog. Chrys. 118, 34, tab. xl; Walk. Ca-
tal. 259, 54. — Chrysopa bipunctata Fitch, Report I, 87.
Yellowish-green ; apex of the antennae obscurer, the second
article with a black ring ; face at the base of the antennae with a
semilunar, short streak, a streak at the sides of the cheeks, and a
point anteriorly, black; occiput with two black points; thorax and
abdomen green, one-colored ; wings broader, the apex rounded,
transverse veins of the costal space black at their bases, black all
over in the posterior wings.
Length to tip of wings 19 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hab. Pennsylvania (Zimmerman); St. Martin's Falls, Albany
River, Hudson's Bay (Barnston) ; New York, June (Asa Fitch).
f f Second article of the antennas of the same color
as the rest.
* Antennae partly black.
11. Ch. nigricornls !
Chrysopa nigricornis Burm. Handb. II, 980, G ; Schneid.! Monog. Chrysop.
126, 37, tab. xliii ; Walk. Catal. 259, 50.— Chrysopa colon Fitch,
Report I, 88.
Pale yellow ; antennae yellowish, black at base, the first article
whitish ; face with a black streak at sides upon the cheeks ; pro-
thorax each side anteriorly with a black point ; body pale yellow;
wings hyaline, transverse costal veins, gradate veins entirely and
the second sector at base, black.
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Length to tip of wings 18 ruillirn. Alar expanse 38 millini.
Hob. Carolina (Zimmerman) ; New York, June (Asa Fitch);
collection of Hagen.
12. Ch. ampla !
Chrysopa ampla Walk. Catal. 268, 72.
Luteous; antennae longer than the wings, the basal article large,
inflated, articles 3 — 8 within, lineated with black; prothorax broad,
narrow in front ; mesothorax spotted with fuscous above ; wings
hyaline, veins white, stigma small, fuscous ; anterior wings with
fuscous veins at base, two basal, costal ones, the last one of the
cubitus, the second one of the first sector, and some of those of
the costa at their apex, blackish-fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 21 millim. Alar expanse 48 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot) ; Mexico.
Another specimen from Mexico is only 21 millim. long, but it is
hardly different.
13. Ch. lineaticornis !
Chrysopa lineaticornis Fitch, Report I, 91. — Chrysopa puncticornis Fitch,
Report I, 92.
Pale green ; antenna longer than the wings, black at base, the
basal article pale, inflated, above lineated with black; head spotted
with fuscous anteriorly; prothorax exteriorly margined with fus-
cous ; wings hyaline, all the transverse veins black.
Length to tip of wings 17 millim. Alar expanse 31 millim.
Hob. New York, July (Asa Fitch); North America (Vienna
Museum).
Chrysopa puncticornis is, very probably, nothing more than a
variety.
14. Ch. cubana !
Chrysopa cubana Hagen !
Bright green ; autennse of the length of the wings, black, the
basal article bright green, above with a broad, black streak; wings
hyaline, transverse veins all black.
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 20 millim.
Hal. Cuba, in March (Osten Sacken) ; Alleghany Mountains,
Virginia (Osten Sacken).
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15. Ch. lateralis.
Eemerobius lateralis Guer. Iconogr. R&gn. Aniin. Ins. p. 388. Schneid.
Monog. Chrys. 162, 6. — Chrysopa lateralis Walk. Catal. 274, 86.
Bright green ; antennae longer than the body, blackish-fuscous,
the basal article rufous; head anteriorly at the margins of the eyes,
and sides of the prothorax with a line, rufous ; veins of the wings
green; feet green, tarsi fulvous. (From the description of Guerin.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim.
Hub. Yera Cruz (Saulcy).
16. Ch. conformis !
Chrysopa conformis Walk. Catal. 269, 74.
Testaceous ; antennas longer than the wings, blackish at base ;
feet pale ; abdomen testaceous ; wings hyaline, pterostigma testa-
ceous^ veins green, some of them black. (From the description of
"Walker. )
Length to tip of wings 17 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim.
Hal. Jamaica (Gosse) ; Cuba; St. Thomas; Mexico (Deppe).
Perhaps a specimen from Jamaica (Cuming; Yienna Museum),
belongs here ; but the antennae are destroyed ; the basal article i
testaceous; the prothorax is margined anteriorly with rufous.
Does it possibly belong to Chrysopa transversa ?
17. Ch. pavida !
Chrysopa pavida Hagen !
Pale, whitish-yellow; occiput truncated behind ; antennas long,
black ; the basal article large, yellow, above with a longitudinal
rufous spot ; the second and third articles yellowish ; prothorax
flat, quadrangular, anteriorly obliquely truncated, the sides nar-
rowly red; wings large, hyaline, pterostigma yellow; veins yellow-
ish ; anterior wings with the middle of the costal veins or the
whole of them, black ; the apex of the second sector, the gradate
veins (10 and 11) almost entirely, apices of the rest of the trans-
verse veins, and the marginal forks entirely, black ; hind wings
with the apex of the second sector, and vein of the posterior mar-
gin, black.
Length to tip of wings 22 millira. Alar expanse 41 millim.
Hob. Cordova, Mexico (Saussure, Deppe); South Carolina
(Zimmerman).
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May tliis not be Hemerobius lateralis Guer. Icon. Regn. Anim.
p. 388 ?
18. Ch. explorata!
Chrysopa explorata Hagen !
Yellowish ; face with a large, quadrangular spot, occiput with
a Y-shaped streak and spot, red ; antennae yellowish, fuscous at
base; the first article yellow, with the apex above, red; prothorax
broad, obliquely truncated in front; anterior margin black; wings
hyaline, narrow, pterostigma yellow, interiorly with a red spot ;
transverse veins of the anterior wings almost all blackish-fuscous;
gradate veins 5 and 5.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hal>. Cordova, Mexico (Saussure).
* * Antennas immaculate ; veins varied with black.
19. Ch. insularis.
Chrysopa insularis Walk. Catal. 269, 73.
Testaceous, beneath paler; antennas testaceous, much longer
than the wings ; head testaceous, mouth rufous, a vertical rufous
streak; prothorax long, conical ; segments of the abdomen fuscous
posteriorly ; wings hyaline, veins green, some of them black ;
pterostigma small, fuscous ; anterior wings with a discoidal fus-
cous spot, internal gradate veins black. (From the description of
Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 36 millira.
Hal. Jamaica (Gosse).
20. Ch. transversa.
Chrysopa transversa Walk. Catal. 255, 46.
Yellow ; antennas shorter than the wings, yellow, pubescent, the
base paler ; head yellow ; face with a spot at the base of the an-
tennas, and the lateral margin, rufous ; palpi partly black ; protho-
rax broad, short, narrower anteriorly, the lateral margins rufous ;
feet pale green ; wings hyaline, veins green, transverse ones almost
all black ; pterostigma pale green ; areoles rather few. (From
the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings — ? millim. Alar expanse 22 millim.
Hob. Jamaica (Gosse).
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21. Ch. collaris.
Chrysopa collaris Sclineid. Monog. Chrys. 80, 9, tab. xv. Walk. Catal.
245, 19.
Yellowish-green; a red streak each side, upon the cheeks, at the
eyes, another upon the lateral margin of the clypeus and labrum ;
a red point each side upon the occiput near the eyes; prothorax a
little broader than long, sides bright ferruginous; antennae shorter
than the wings, paler at base; anterior wings with the gradate veins
and all the subcubital ones, base and apex of the costal ones, base
of the second sector, the first sector, and some cubital 'ones partly,
black ; posterior wings with the costal veins black. (From the
description of Schneider.)
Length to tip of wings 16 millirn. Alar expanse 29 millim.
H(tb. Island of St. Thomas.
Perhaps it is not distinct from Ch. transversa.
22. Ch. thoracica!
Chrysopa thoracica Walk.! Catal. 243, 15.
Green, striped with yellow, robust ; antennae (absent from my
specimen) stout, much shorter than the wings, testaceous, yellow
at base ; face pale, a transverse rufous streak each side at the an-
tennas; palpi dusky; prothorax broad, short, a dorsal, longitudinal,
yellow stripe upon the middle ; abdomen with a similarly placed
yellow stripe; feet pale green; wings narrow hyaline, veins of the
costa, transverse ones of the second sector and gradate ones, black ;
pterostigma pale green.
Length to tip of wings 16 millim. Alar expanse 29 millim.
Hob. Havana (collection of Hagen); St. Domingo (Pierret).
23. Ch. quadripunctata !
Chrysopa quadripunctata Burm.! Handb. II, 980, 5. Schueid.! Monog.
Chrys. 84, 12, tab. xviii. Walk. Catal. 246, 22.— Chrysopa sichelii
Fitch, Report I, 89.
Pale yellowish-green ; thorax and abdomen with a middle orange
stripe ; head pale, with a yellow spot above ; sides of the face, a
little between the antennas, and each side posteriorly, at the eyes,
orange ; antennas whitish, palpi whitish, with the apex fuscous ;
prothorax pale yellow, each side with three orange points ; meso-
thorax with an orange point each side anteriorly; feet pale; wings
hyaline, transverse veins almost all black.
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Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 32 millim.
Hob. Carolina (Zimmerman) ; Pennsylvania ; New York, Au-
gust (Asa Fitch).
The other locality cited by Mr. Walker does not belong to this
species.
24 Ch. virginica.
Chrysopa virginica Fitch, Report I, 91.
Yellowish-green, immaculate ; prothorax each side anteriorly
with a black point; wings hyaline, veins green, transverse veins of
the second sector fuscous at base, first gradate vein of the external
series black, clouded with fuscous ; pterostigma with a fuscous
point, which is larger in the posterior wings ; basal areole quad-
rangular. (Is it irregular?) (From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 19 millim. Alar expanse 35 millim.
Hab. Cartersville, Virginia (Asa Fitch).
25. Ch. sulphurea.
Chrysopa sulphurea Fitch, Report I, 89.
Yellowish-sulphureous ; a subocular orange point ; prothorax
each side anteriorly, and the basal segments of the abdomen each
side, with an orange point ; antenna? and feet whitish ; apex of the
wings rounded, of the posterior ones slightly angulated, veins
whitish, transverse veins with the base and apex of almost all of
them, and the gradate veins, black. (From the description of Dr.
Fitch.)
26. Ch. rufilabris !
Chrysopa rufilabris Burm. Handb. II, 979, 2. Schneid. Monog. Chrys.
78, 8, tab. xiv. Walk. Catal. 245, 18. — Chrysopa novaeboracensis
Fitch, Report I, 90.
Pale green, with a yellowish stripe in the middle; antennas whit-
ish, the apex obscurer ; face with a lateral streak and the mouth
red; palpi luteous, the apex and exteriorly fuscous; occiput each
side with a rufous point ; prothorax often each side with a black
point ; feet pale ; wings hyaline, the apex angulated, transverse
veins almost all black, green in the middle.
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hab. Pennsylvania; ISTew York, common in June and July (Asa
Fitch); Savannah, Georgia; Mexico.
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27. Ch. interrupta!
Chrysopa interrupta Schneid. Monog. Chrys. 76, 16, tab. xii. Walk. Ca-
tal. 242, 12. — Chrysopa tabida Fitch, Report I, 92.
Pale green, almost white, immaculate ; wings narrow, gradate
and subcubital veins black, transverse almost all black, with white
middles.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 26 rnillirn.
Hab. Pennsylvania; New York, August (Asa Fitch).
28. Ch. emuncta.
Chrysopa emuncta Fitch, Report I, 88.
Pale yellow; head each side with a transverse, small, subocular
line, and an intermediate one black; prothorax anteriorly with a
black point each side ; apex of the wings rounded, bases of the
transverse costal veins, and the base and apex of the second sector
black; palpi exteriorly black. (From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 19 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hal. New York, August (Asa Fitch).
29. Ch. attenuata!
Chrysopa attenuata "Walk. Catal. 242, 14.
Yellow, very slender; sides of the head anteriorly rufous; palpi
varied with rufous; antennas yellowish ; prothorax narrow, the sides
anteriorly rufescent ; feet pale ; wings hyaline, veins green, trans-
verse costal veins, the second sector and gradate veins obscurer.
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 20 millim.
Hab. St. John's Bluff, East Florida (Doubleday) ; Berkeley
Springs, Virginia (Osten Sackeii).
30. Ch. repleta.
Chrysopa repleta Walk. Catal. 244, 17.
Testaceous ; apex of the antenna? a little obscurer ; prothorax
long, narrow in front ; segments of the abdomen each side with a
fuscous spot ; feet pale ; wings hyaline ; all the transverse veins
of the anterior wings, and some of those of the posterior wings,
partly tinged with fuscous. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 22 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
* * * Antennae immaculate ; veins of the wings green.
CHRYSOPA. 221
31. Ch. harrisii.
Chrysopa harrisii Fitch, Report I, W.— Chrysopa perla Harris, Ins. New
England, 215.
Very much like Ch. novaeboracensis, but a little broader ; the
veins all green. (From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 15 millira. Alar expanse 28 millim.
Nab. New York, in July and August (Asa Fitch).
32. Ch. external
Chrysopa externa HagenI
Greenish-yellow; thorax and abdomen with a middle, yellow
vitta ; the mouth anteriorly and the sides sanguineous ; antennas
fulvous, yellowish at base ; wings narrow, acuminate, fimbriated
with green ; all the veins green ; the divisory-veinlet of the third
cubital areole not reaching the first transverse veinlet of the first
radial sector.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hab. Washington (Osten Sacken); Mexico; California.
May not this be Ch. harrisii? the wings, however, are narrower.
The species has the divisory veinlet not reaching the first trans-
verse veinlet, or rather not clearly exceeding it; and it is very much
like Ch. vulgaris, of Europe ; but differs by the wings being nar-
rower, and more acuminate. Ch. acuta, of the Berlin Museum,
is perhaps this species (from Brazil, Surinam, Mexico) ; but it
differs in having fewer gradate veins.
33. Ch. robertsonii.
Chrysopa robertsonii Fitch, Report I, 88.
Pale green, with a pale dorsal stripe; head sulphureous, a short,
black line each side at the eyes ; antennas yellowish, the basal ar-
ticle whitish ; wings rounded at the apex, pterostigma green, veins
all green. (From the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hab. Tullehassie, Creek Indian Territory (Robertson).
34. Ch. plorabunda.
Chrysopa plorabunda Fitch, Report I, 88.
Pale green, with a yellow dorsal stripe ; head yellow, with a
small black line at the eyes ; antennas whitish, with the apex yel-
222 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
lowish; feet green-white, tarsi yellowish; apex of the wings
rounded, the posterior ones with the apex a little acuminate.
A variety has a reddish point each side of the head. (From
the description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. New York, Illinois, September and October, common
(Asa Fitch).
35. Ch. pseudographa.
Chrysopa pseudographa Fitch, Report I, 89.
Very much like the preceding, stramineous ; head yellow, face
each side with a small black line ; antennae, feet, and veins of the
wings whitish ; apex of the wings rounded ; abdomen with a nar-
row, dorsal, white line, and the segments each side with an apical,
yellowish spot.
Var. Apex of the segments with a yellowish fascia. (From the
description of Dr. Fitch.)
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. Northern Illinois, October (Asa Fitch).
36. Ch. flava !
Hemerobius flavus Scopol. Ent. Cam. 270, 707.— Chrysopa vittata "Wesm.!
Bullet. Acad. Brux. VIII, 211, 7 (partly) ; Schneid.! Monog. Cnrys.
65, 1, tab. vii. — Chrysopa alba Brauer! Monog. No. 5; Burm.!
Handb. II, 981, 13.— Chrysopa subfalcata Steph.! Illustr. VI, 105, 13.
Entirely whitish-green ; basal article of the antennae thick, elon-
gated ; wings acuminate, the costal margin of the anterior ones
broadly emarginated ; veins white, a few of the transverse veins at
base a little blackish.
Length to tip of wings 26 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim.
Hal. Philadelphia (collection of Hagen) ; Europe ; Asia.
37. Ch. innovata !
Chrysopa innovata Hagen !
Pale yellow ; maxillary palpi with an external black streak upon
the articles; face with a black streak and spot on both sides;
antennas pale yellow (partly destroyed), the first articles, long,
narrow, cylindrical, hardly thicker than the following ones; front
tuberculous between the antenna? ; vertex citron-colored ; protho-
rax subelongate, narrower anteriorly, each side anteriorly with a
black point; feet pale yellow, nails black; abdomen yellow; wings
ACANTHACLISIS. 223
lone;, the apex elliptical; veins and their fimbrice pale yellow; base
of the costal veins, the first and second sector, some of the cubital
at the apex and sometimes at the base, and the gradate veins (12
and 10) all black.
Length to tip of wings 23 millim. Alar expanse 41 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Deppe; Berlin Museum).
ACANTHACLISIS RAMBUR.
Antennas short, stout, the apex thickened ; labial palpi longer
than the maxillary; body stout, abdomen long, the apex forcipated
in the males; feet stout; spurs infracted; base of the nails dilated;
wings long, narrow, densely veined; the male having a tubercle at
base of posterior wings.
1. A. americana.
Myrmcleon americanum Drury, Ins. 1.111,4; tab. slvi, fig. 4. Burin.
Handb. II, 996, 17. Walk. Catal. 317, 31. — Acanthaclisis americana
Ramb. Neuropt. 380, 4.
Gray, clothed with gray hairs ; head with a black stripe in the
middle, face gray; antennas black; thorax yellow-gray, with a stripe
in the middle and a lateral one each side black, clothed with long
gray pile; abdomen fuscous, the sides obscurer; apex of the abdo-
men of the male with short, straight, forcipated cerci ; feet black,
with gray hair ;' wings grayish-hyaline, densely pointed with fus-
cous; costal space fuscescent in the middle, biareolate. (From the
figure and description of Drury.)
" Grayish-fuscous, front and two dorsal stripes rosy-gray; feet
annulated with flesh-color; veins of the wings hyaline, alternately
rosy and fuscous, wings with fuscous and pearly spots." (Burm.)
Length to tip of wings tl millim. Alar expanse 126 millim.
Hal). New York (Drury) J*; South Carolina (Zimmerman) 9.
I have never seen it ; the specimen of Burmeister is larger, the
wings spread 96 millim. Is it different?
2. A. fallax!
Myrmdeon fallax Ramb. ! Neuropt. 385, 1. Walk. Catal. 329, 45.— Mijr-
melcon impostor Walk.! Catal. 324, 41. — Myrmeleon senilis Klug! Ber-
lin Museum.
Lurid, with gray villosity, beneath yellowish ; face, palpi, and
224 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
base of the antennae beneath yellowish; antenna? lurid,. annul ated
with fuscous; vertex varied with fulvous and fuscous, a middle lon-
gitudinal line, and each side with a transverse streak, fulvous;
occiput with two approximated fuscous lines; prothorax lurid, each
side with three longitudinal fuscous stripes, the intermediate ones
being less clear; the middle ones approximated, with a whitish line,
which is thicker anteriorly, separating them; thorax lurid, streaked
with fuscous, and with a dorsal whitish, middle line; feet pale, apex
of the femora exteriorly fuscous, tibiae, especially the anterior ones,
annulated with fuscous ; nails black ; abdomen lurid, above with
three fuscous streaks ; thorax and feet with long and dense gray
villosity ; appendages of the male cylindrical, short, almost straight,
above with black pile ; wings long, narrow, the apex acuminated,
the apex of the posterior ones a little emarginated, hyaline, with
pearly spots ; veins alternated with white and fuscous spots ; radius
punctated ; the space between the median nervure and the subcosta
sometimes spotted with fuscous ; pterostigma small, white ; trans-
verse veins often bifid at the apex of the costal space.
Length to tip of wings 70 millim. Alar expanse 120 millim.
Hab. Mexico (Coffin); Cuba; Columbia; Guiana; Brazil.
It may perhaps constitute a new subgenus.
3. A. congener!
Acanthaclisis congener Hagen!
Black, clothed with gray hair; face, palpi, and base of the an-
tenna? beneath, yellowish-white ; antenna? black, the apex with nar-
row whitish rings ; vertex black with two transverse stripes, the
posterior one interrupted in the middle, and two points posterior
to the bands, yellow, the surface with white hair ; prothorax each
side with a maculose stripe, which is double anteriorly, fulvous ;
posterior margin fulvous, black in the middle; mesothorax spotted
with yellow; abdomen black, with gray pile, the posterior margins
of the apical segments narrowly fulvous ; feet fuscous, with gray
hair, tibiae yellowish, annulated with fuscous, tarsi black ; wings
hyaline, a little acuminate, veins yellow, with fuscous interruptions,
pterostigma small, black, margined with yellow; subcosta and me-
dian nervule distinctly punctate ; the costal space with one series
of areoles. (Female.)
Length 'to tip of wings 43 millim. Alar expanse 72 millim.
Hab. Pecos River, Western Texas, July (Capt. Pope).
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MYRMELEON LINN£.
Antennae short, robust, the apex thickened ; body elongated,
slender; feet long, slender; spurs straight or a little incurved;
base of the nails not dilated; wings long, narrow, densely veined.
f Apex of the wings with a broad fuscous band.
1. M. gratus!
Formicaleo grata Say, Journ. Acad. Pliilad. VIII, 45, 2. — Myrmeleon gra-
tus Walk.! Catal. 392,157. — Myrmdeon roseipennis Burm.l Handb.
II, 995, 13 ; Ramb. ! Neuropt. 408, 38, tab. xii, fig. 2.
Black; margin of the labium, a transverse stripe upon the face
and the occiput yellow; antennas long, the apex hardly thickened;
labial palpi short, black, the last article longer, fusiform ; prothorax
black, a middle line, broader at base and apex, white ; abdomen
fuscous ; feet slender, long, rufo-fuscous, base of the femora pale ;
posterior tibia3 pale, with the apex fuscous ; spurs long, straight,
as long as the two basal articles of tire tarsi ; tarsi pale, with the
apex fuscous; wings large, hyaline, the apex rosy, interior to which
is a large, trifarious, fuscous spot ; anterior wings with a spot at
the middle of the posterior margin, and a series of points at the
submedian nervure, fuscous ; median and submedian nervures yel-
low, interrupted with fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 52 millim. Alar expanse 94 millim.
Hab. Indiana; St. Louis; Philadelphia; Mississippi (Edwards).
f f Wings with ocellate fuscous spots.
2. M. obsoletus!
Formicaleo obsoleta Say, Jour. Acad. Philad. VIII, 44, 1. — Myrmeleon ocel-
latus Burm.! Haiidb. II, 995, 12 ; Walk. Catal. 401, \11.-Myrmeleon
nigrocinctus Ramb. I Neuropt. 398, 20 ; Walk.! Catal. 361, 101.
Luteous; face with a transverse, broad, fuscous fascia; antennas
long, the apex clavate, luteous, the base and apex black ; labial
palpi short, luteous, the last article longer, fusiform ; prothorax
elongated, narrower anteriorly, luteous, a little granulated with
black; meso- and metathorax with a broad, dorsal, fuscous stripe ;
at each side a broad black stripe; abdomen black, a luteous, dorsal
band upon the middle of each segment ; feet elongated, very slender,
black; base of the anterior femora, and apex of the tibiae brown;
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226 NEUROPTERA OF NOK^H AMERICA.
posterior femora with a luteous band before the apex, tibite luteous,
with the base and apex black, tarsi luteous, o.bscurer at the apex;
spurs as long as the two basal articles of the tarsi, luteous ; wings
hyaline, beautifully spotted with fuscous; the anterior ones with an
ocellate spot at the middle of the posterior margin, a double spot at
the pterostigma, an apical interrupted series, and some points at
the median nervure, fuscous; posterior wings with a larger, orbicu-
lar spot before the pterostigma, and some apical spots, also fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 34 millim. Alar expanse 62 rnillim.
Hob. United States, not rare (Say) ; New York ; St. Louis ;
Carolina (Cabanis); Alabama (Gosse); Maryland (Uhler).
Very much like M. pantherinus Fab. (ocellatus Borkhausen),
from Europe, but a different and most beautiful species. (Gosse
(Letters from Alabama) figures this species on p. 248 — Uhler.)
f f f Wings not spotted, but hyaline or sprinkled with
fuscous.
* Costal space with a double series of areoles.
| Xo spurs.
3. M. abdominalis !
Myrmeleon abdominalis Say, Godmau's West. Quart. Report, II, 163. — Myr-
meleon irroratus Burm.! Handb. II, 995, 11. — Myrmdeon conspcrsus
Ramb.! Neuropt. 387, 3 ; Walk.! Catal. 329, 47.— M. talpinus Klug.
Berlin Museum.
Fuscous; face pale, with a broad, brownish-black band upon the
middle, which is emarginated anteriorly; vertex black, a transverse,
pale line above at the base of the antennae ; antenna? long, stout,
not clavate, black; palpi equal, luteo-fuscous ; thorax fuscous, ob-
scurely and interruptedly lineated with pale ; prothorax short ;
aldomen long, slender, longer than the wings, the apex forcipated,
fuscous, hirsute ; two longitudinal, dorsal lines, which are some-
times partly confluent, pale ; feet pale, densely sprinkled with
black, apex of the tibiae, and apex of the tarsal articulations black;
tibia? armed with long, black spines, no spurs; wings short, broader
before the apex, a little fumose, subhyaline, veins fuscous, inter-
rupted with white, the anterior wings closely sprinkled with fus-
cous, especially at the median and submedian nerves; abdomen of
the female shorter than the wings; fuscous, the segments with mid-
dle and apical yellow points.
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Length to tip of wings 32 J"; 26 9 millim. Alar expanse 50
millim.
Hob. Arkansas, Rocky Mountains ; South Carolina (Zimmer-
man); Savannah, Georgia; Florida (Norton); New Jersey (Uh-
ler).
Does M. abdominatis Say, perhaps belong to the following
species?
| Spurs present.
4. M. longicatida !
Myrmeleon longicaudus Barm.! Handb. II, 994, 8; Ramb.! Neuropt. 386,
2, tab. xii, fig. 3; Walk.! Catal. 329, 46.
Luteo-fuscous ; face luteous, fuscous at the base of the antennae ;
vertex obscurely varied with fuscous; antennae long, thick, clavate,
fuscous; palpi equal, luteous; thorax fuscous, obscurely varied
with pale ; prothorax short ; abdomen long, slender, hairy, longer
than the wings, the apex forcipated, fuscous ; the basal half above
obsoletely luteous; feet pale, sprinkled with black; apex of the
tibiae, the whole of the third and fourth articulations of the tarsi
and the apex of the last article, black ; tibia? with black spines ;
spurs as long as the two basal articles of the tarsi ; wings narrow,
hyaline, veins fuscous ; the median and submedian nervure inter-
rupted with white ; pterostignia whitish ; anterior wings rarely
sprinkled with fuscous, with three obsolete, fuscous points at the
submedian nervure. I have not seen the female.
Length to tip of wings 40 millim. Alar expanse 48 millim.
Hob. Savannah, Georgia.
5. M. contaminatu3.
Myrmeleon contaminatus Burm. Handb. II, 995, 11. Note.
" Most like M. irrorattis, but entirely black-gray, the hind
wings also are densely sprinkled with black." Unknown to me.
(From the description of Burin.)
Hob. South Carolina (Zimmerman).
6. M. salvus \
Myrmeleon salvus Hagen !
Luteo-fuscous ; face luteous, above black ; vertex fuscous, obso-
letely variegated ; antenna long, clavate, fusconis, slightly annu-
228 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
lated with luteous ; palpi luteous, equal ; thorax fuscous, varied
with pale ; prothorax short ; abdomen of the male long, slender,
the apex forcipated, hairy, longer than the wings, luteous, with
two dorsal pale lines ; feet yellowish, sprinkled with black, apex
of the tarsal articulations, and the fourth entirely black; tibiae with
black spines ; spurs as long as the two basal articles of the tarsi.;
wings narrow, hyaline, veins fuscous, pterostigma white; subcosta,
median and submedian nerves white, a little sprinkled with fus-
cous ; posterior margin of the wings a little sprinkled with fuscous,
the costal space upon the basal half uniareolated.
Length to tip of wings 32 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken) ; South Carolina (Zimmer-
man).
M. nebulosus Ramb.l Neuropt. 387, 4; Walk. Catal. 330, 48,
is perhaps the female of M. salvus; I possess two specimens from
Pennsylvania, the one the size of our typical male, the other larger.
(Expanding 62 millim.)
7. M. nebulosus.
Myrmeleon nebulosum Oliv. Enc. Method. VIII, 127, 35 ; Walk. Catal.
409, 212.
Black, marked with yellow; abdomen black, the base of the seg-
ments pale; feet yellow; wings hyaline, reticulated with fuscous,
with obscure points and spots. (From the description of Olivier.)
Hob. Xew York.
Unknown to me; does it belong to this section?
8. M. versutus.
Myrmeleon versutus Walk.! Catal. 331, 51.
Black, very slender; front of the head shining, at the eyes and
around the base of the antennae, yellow ; vertex with two, inter-
rupted on the middle, yellow bands ; face each side with an an-
gular, yellow stripe; palpi yellow, black at the apex; antennae
subfiliform, much longer than the thorax, black; prothorax short,
yellow, bivittated with black; a yellow point anteriorly upon the
vittse ; meso- and metathorax lineated and pointed with yellow;
abdomen very long, slender, the apex forcipated, testaceous, the
base striped with piceous, the apex black ; feet testaceous ; wings
hyaline, short, narrow, finely dotted with fuscous ; pterostigma
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whitish ; the apex only of the costal space biareolated. (From
the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 30 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Coffin).
9. M. ferox.
Myrmeleonferox Walk. Catal. 332, 52.
Black, very slender ; base of the antennae encircled with yellow ;
vertex luteous, with an interrupted black band; face pale yellow;
palpi testaceous; antennae black, almost filiform, longer than the
thorax ; prothorax narrow, with a dorsal line and two points each
side, yellow ; beneath yellow; meso- and metathorax margined and
pointed with yellow; abdomen much longer than the wings, the
apex forcipated, segments each side behind with a testaceous
point ; feet testaceous, tibiae and tarsi black at apex ; wings cine-
reous, pterostigma whitish ; a brown mark adjoining it on the front
wings ; veins fuscous, sometimes interrupted with white ; anterior
wings with three fuscous points at the submedian nerve, and an
oblique, apical fuscous streak ; posterior wings immaculate ; the
apex only of the costal space biareolated. (From the description
of Walker.) Male.
Length to tip of wings 42 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim.
Hob. California (Hartweg).
10. M. exitialis.
Myrmeleon exitialis Walk. Catal. 376, 133.
Black ; mouth luteous, each side with a yellow point ; vertex
each side with a yellow line and point ; antennae clavate, shorter
than the thorax ; prothorax short, narrower anteriorly, with six
luteous spots, the four anterior ones being placed in a transverse
series ; meso- and metathorax partly margined with yellow ; ab-
domen shorter than the wings, the segments margined posteriorly
with yellow ; feet black, femora partly yellow ; tibiae bifasciate with
yellow, tarsi yellow at base ; wings subcinereous, long, narrow,
subacuminate ; pterostigma pale yellow, marked each side by a
fuscous point, which is obsolete in the posterior wings; veins black,
interrupted with yellow ; anterior wings with a series of points at
the median and submedian nerves, and the veins partly banded
with fuscous ; only the extreme apex of the costal space biareolated.
(From the description of Walker.)
230 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length to tip of wings 30 milliin. Alar expanse 73 millim.
Hob. California (Hartweg).
Female? Does it belong to this section?
11. M. inscriptus !
Myrmtleon inscriptus Hagen !
Black; face yellow, black above; vertex black, with an inter-
rupted line each side, and two points behind, yellow; antenna
black, a little aunulated with yellow (apex destroyed); palpi fus-
cous, articulated with pale; prothorax short, black, a middle line,
a lateral one each side and a point anteriorly, yellow; rneso- and
metathorax black, pointed with yellow ; abdomen short, black ;
feet black, clothed with white hair, base exteriorly of the posterior
tibia? yellow; spurs luteous, of the length of the first tarsal articu-
lation ; wings narrow, long, acuminate, subcinereous; anterior ones
with the veins fuscous, slightly banded with fuscous, rarely inter-
rupted with white ; pterostigma small, white, exteriorly fuscous ;
at the posterior margin is a fuscous, flexuous, bi-incurved line,
reaching the apex ; at the median nervure are some hyaline nebula3,
whitish ; posterior wings hyaline, veins fuscous, sometimes inter-
rupted with white ; the whole of the costal space of the anterior
wings biareolated.
Length to tip of wings 34 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
12. M. pumilis !
Mijrmeleon pumilis Burm. ! Handb. II, 995, 10 ; Walk. Catal. 401, 173.
Black ; face luteous, black above ; vertex black, in front with a
pale band, clothed with white hairs, transverse ; basal article of
the antennas whitish (destroyed in my specimen), "pale, annulated
with black, club abrupt, black, Burm.," palpi pale, annulated with
fuscous ; prothorax narrow, with a triangular, white spot each side
anteriorly; meso- and metathorax with some pale points ; abdomen
black, segments with a pale band upon the middle; feet pale, with
white and black spines, femora black above, the apex white, tibiaa
white, with a broad basal and apical black ring; articles of the
tarsi black at the apex ; spurs as long as the two basal articles of
the tarsi ; wings hyaline, broad ; veins white, interrupted with fus-
cous ; anterior wings sprinkled with rare, but sufficiently distinct
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fuscous points; pterostigraa small, white; only the apex of the
costal space biareolated.
Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 35 millim.
Hal>. South Carolina (Zimmerman).
* * Costal space with one series of areoles.
| No spurs.
13. M. pygmaeus !
Myrmeleon pi/gmaeus Hageu !
Fuscous, spotted with yellow ; face black, with yellow spots ;
palpi yellow, the last article black ; occiput yellow, spotted with
black ; antennas short, black, annulated with yellow, the club large,
almost orbicular, luteous, varied with fuscous ; prothorax short,
fuscous, varied with yellow; abdomen short, the dorsnm pointed
with fuscous, with black hair, and white villosity, venter luteous ;
feet short, pale, spotted with black ; apex of all the tarsal articles
black ; wings short, the apes very much dilated, the reticulation
peculiar, simple, hyaline, pterostigma snow-white, brown interiorly;
veins fuscous, the longitudinal ones interrupted with white.
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hob. Mexico (Deppe).
A very singular species ; as yet, the smallest of this genus.
\'\ Spurs of the anterior feet as long as the first
tarsal joint.
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14. M. immaculatus !
Myrmeleon immaculatus De Geer, Meni. Ill, 365, tab. xxvii, fig. 8 ; Burm. !
Handb. II, 994, 5 ; Walk. Catal. 401, 174.
Brownish-black; face black, shining, yellowish anteriorly; ver-
tex opaque, with shining black streaks, in front with a transverse,
interrupted stripe, the middle with two interrupted, approximated
ones, and each side a small one posteriorly; antennas lurid, clavate,
the second article black ; palpi lurid ; thorax fusco-piceous, obso-
letely varied with lurid ; abdomen fuscous ; feet yellowish, densely
sprinkled with black ; base and apex of the tibiae with a black
ring ; tarsi black, the basal article yellowish, with its apex black ;
anterior feet obscurer; wings narrow, long, acute, hyaline, a little
cinereous ; veins with white and black interruptions, pterostigma
white, black within.
232 NEUROPTEEA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length to tip of wings 38 — 44 millim. Alar expanse 70 — 80
millim.
Hob. Savannah ; Washington (Osten Sacken); Alleghany Moun-
tains, Virginia (Osten Sacken).
Dr. Burrneister's specimen is pale, being a recently excluded
one ; a specimen from Virginia expands 70 millim., but it is hardly
different ; the apices of the abdominal segments are pale ; but in
Burmeister's specimen and another (from Washington), the colors
are not distinct.
15. M. tectus.
Myrmeleon tectus Walk. Catal. 378, 135.
Black-gray, robust; head shining, black; mouth luteous, the
eyes half encircled with yellow ; antennae black, subclavate, the
base annulated with yellow, shorter than the thorax ; palpi luteous;
prothorax short; rneso- and metathorax margined with testaceous ;
feet black; tibiae with testaceous bands, those of the posterior
ones broader ; femora and tarsi testaceous at base ; (abdomen
mutilated); wings hyaline, narrow subacuminate, pterostigma
white, the anterior ones marked with fuscous ; veins black, inter-
rupted with yellow. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 42 ? millim. Alar expanse 74 millim.
Hob. St. John's Bluff, East Florida (Doubleday).
Do the spurs correspond with this section ?
16. M. crudelis.
Myrmeleon crudelis Walk. Catal. 388, 152.
Piceous, slender; head anteriorly and beneath testaceous, front
black ; vertex ferruginous, antennas ferruginous, clavate, the apex
piceous, shorter than the thorax ; prothorax long, testaceous, with
three piceous vitta? ; rneso- and metathorax margined with testa-
ceous ; abdomen shorter than the wings; feet testaceous; wings
hyaline, narrow, subacute ; pterostigma obsolete, whitish ; veins
whitish ; subcostal and submedian veins interrupted with fuscous.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 30 millim. Alar expanse 54 millim.
Hal. St. John's Bluff, East Florida (Doubleday).
Do the spurs correspond with this section ?
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17. M. rusticus!
Myrmeleon rusticus Hagen !
Piceous, robust ; front nigro-piceous, shining ; mouth attd be-
neath yellowish ; eyes narrowly encircled with yellow ; palpi lute-
ous, the last article of the labial ones thickened, fusiform, nigro-
piceous ; antennas clavate, obscurely annulated with yellow ; vertex
obscure ferruginous, each side with a yellow point ; occiput fus-
cous, opaque, with two middle, interrupted stripes and a lateral,
flat shining spot each side ; prothorax short, fuscous, the anterior
margin, and three obsolete stripes, yellowish ; meso- and meta-
thorax margined with yellow ; abdomen luteo-fuscous, the posterior
margin of the segments, and sometimes a dorsal middle line, yel-
lowish ; feet yellowish, femora and tibiae with a stripe beneath and
an apical ring, fuscous ; apex of the tarsi fuscous ; wings narrow,
hyaline, pterostigma a little whitish ; veins yellowish-white, the
median and submedian nerves distinctly interrupted with fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 30 — 33 millim. Alar expanse 50 — 60
millim.
Nab. Pecos River, Western Texas, August 4 (Capt. Pope) ;
Matamoras; Florida (Norton). Is this H. crudelis?
18. M. insertus !
Myrmeleon insertus Hageu !
Piceous, slender; face black, shining, each side and the mouth
yellow ; palpi yellowish, the last article fuscous ; antennas piceous,
a little annulated with yellow, clavate ; vertex opaque piceous,
with a transverse, interrupted yellow band upon the middle ; occi-
put opaque, with two streaks upon the middle, interrupted, and
flat, shining spots upon the sides, fuscous ; prothorax luteous,
obsoletely trivittate with piceous ; meso- and metathorax hoary,
narrowly margined with yellow ; abdomen piceous, margin of the
segments posteriorly luteous ; femora fuscous, the base and an
apical ring yellow ; tibiffi yellow, within and an apical ring brown-
ish-black ; tarsi with brownish-black rings ; wings long, narrow,
acuminate, pterostigma obsoletely white ; veins white, the median
one distinctly, and the others obsoletely interrupted with fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 33 millim. Alar expanse 58 millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey) ; Port au Prince, St. Domingo.
Chanvallon reports that Myrmeleons are frequently found in the
234 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
island of Marti niqee; but does not describe any species. Compare
Voyage a la Martinique, p. 185.
19. M. leachii.
Formicaleo leachii Guilding, Trails. Linn. Soc. Lond. XVI, 49, 1 ; Walk.
Catal. 373, 127.
Fuscescent, spotted with yellowish ; eyes coppery ; feet short,
pale, tarsi simple, nails moderate ; wings hyaline, subfalcate, im-
maculate, veins ciliated. (From the description of Walker.)
Hal. Jamaica. Unknown to me. Does it belong to this sec-
tion ?
HI Spurs of the anterior feet as long as the two
basal articles of the tarsi.
20. M. peregrinus !
Myrmeleon peregrinus Hagen !
Yellow, variegated with blackish-fuscous ; head yellow, face with
a black spot between the antenna? ; palpi yellow, the last article
fuscous; antennae clavate, black, annulated with yellow; vertex
yellow, with two transverse black stripes, the posterior one inter-
rupted in the middle, arcuated; prothorax short, yellow, above
with four black lines, beneath each side with a black stripe ; nieso-
and metathorax yellow, varied with black ; abdomen yellow, the
dorsum with three black lines, venter fuscous ; feet yellow, densely
sprinkled with black, the posterior femora sometimes black in the
middle ; apex of the tibias and tarsi annulated with black ; wings
long, broad, hyaline, pterostigma yellow, interiorly fuscous; veins
yellow, hardly distinctly interrupted with fuscous, at thf median
and submediau nerves pointed with fuscous ; the smaller forks and
the transverse veins at the posterior margin of the anterior wings
distinctly marked with fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 40 millim. Alar expanse 74 millira.
Halt. California; Pecos River, Western Texas, July (Capt.
Pope). Specimens from Mataraoras are smaller (expanding 54
millim.), but they are hardly different.
21. M. juvencus !
Myrmeleon juvencus Hagen!
Yellow, varied with black ; head and palpi yellow, a spot be-
tween the antennas, and two points upon the vertex, black; anten-
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na3 yellow, clavate, annulated with black; prothorax short; thorax
all yellow ; above and beneath bilineated with black ; prothorax
with the anterior part yellow ; abdomen clothed with white hairs,
yellowish, dorsum trilineated with black; feet yellow, the whole of
the fourth article of the tarsi, and the apex of the last one, black;
wings broad, yellowish-hyaline, pterostigma obsoletely whitish ;
veins yellow, thickly sprinkled with fuscous, especially so at the
rnediun and submedian nerves ; base and apex of the transverse
veins of the costal space, and forks at the posterior margin, fuscous ;
posterior wings only at the median nerve, sprinkled with fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 30 inillim. Alar expanse 54 millim.
Hob. Pecos River, Western Texas, July (Capt. Pope); North
America (Collection of Hagen).
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22. M. blandus !
Myrmeleon blandus Hagen !
Yellow, varied with black ; head yellow ; last article of the
palpi fuscous; a spot between the antenna?, trifid, black ; vertex
yellow, black anteriorly, above with two transverse black lines, the
hind one interrupted; antennas black, annulated with yellow; pro-
thorax short, yellow, with two black stripes upon the middle, which
are anteriorly, exteriorly incised, beneath each side with a black
stripe ; meso- and metathorax yellow, lineated with black ; abdo-
men yellow, clothed with white hair, above narrowly trilineated
with black ; beneath black ; feet yellow, all the articles of the
tarsi annulated with black at the apex; wings hyaline, broad,
pterostigma obsoletely yellow ; veins yellow, interrupted with
black, especially at the subcosta; transverse ones almost black.
Length to tip of wings 22 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hub. Pecos Pviver, Western Texas (Capt. Pope).
23. M. bistictus !
Myrmeleon bistictus Hagen !
Testaceous, varied with piceous; face testaceous, last article of
the palpi fuscous ; a fuscous spot between the antenna? ; antenna?
clavate, black, annulated with testaceous ; vertex opaque, testa-
ceous, with some transverse piceous marks ; prothorax short, tes-
taceous, with two stripes in the middle, and a lateral one each
side, piceous ; meso- and metathorax piceous, varied with testa-
236 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
ceous ; abdomen (mutilated) piceous, the segments with two lon-
gitudinal, testaceous, medial spots ; femora piceous, annulated
with yellow before the apex; tibise yellow, biannulated with fus-
cous ; tarsi black, the anterior ones with the base of the last arti-
cle yellow; wings long, narrow, acuminate, pterostigma obsoletely
white, the anterior ones fuscous within ; veins fuscous, interrupted
with white; the anterior wings with an oblique apical line, and
another at the middle of the posterior margin, fuscous, narrow.
Length to tip of wings 34 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey).
\ I 1 1 Spurs of the anterior feet as long as the three
basal articles of the tarsi.
24. M. macer !
Myrmeleon macer Hagen !
Luteous, varied with piceous, slender ; face black, mouth and
palpi luteous ; vertex opaque, luteous, a 4-spotted transverse line,
and occipital points, black; antennas slender, subclavate, longer
than the thorax, luteous, annulated with fuscous ; prothorax nar-
row, luteo-fuscous, anteriorly trimaculate with pale ; meso- and
metathorax obscurely luteo-fuscous ; abdomen luteo-fuscous, the
segments 2 to 4 yellowish upon the middle ; feet long, whitish,
slender, knees at the femora, and the base and apex of the tibia?,
annulated with black; tarsi with articles 3 and 4 entirely, and the
apex of the last article, black ; spurs long, whitish ; wings broad,
hyaline; pterostigma obsoletely whitish; veins white, with fuscous
interruptions, especially at the median nerve ; transverse veins
almost all fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 34 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim.
ffab. Mexico (Vienna Museum).
25. M. ingeniosus !
Myrmeleon ingeniosus Walk.! Catal. 337, 63.
Fuscous ; face yellow, black above ; mouth and palpi luteous ;
apical article of the labial palpi pointed with black in the middle ;
vertex fuscous, occiput with two transverse, maculose, yellow
stripes ; antenna? slender, subclavate, longer than the thorax, black,
annulated with yellow ; prothorax narrow, fuscous, each side with
an obsolete line, and the anterior margin, luteous ; mesothorax
EUPTILON — ASCALAPHUS. 237
pointed with luteous ; feet short, yellowish, sprinkled with black ;
third and fourth joints of the tarsi entirely, and the apex of the
last joint, black ; spurs long, luteous'; abdomen fuscous, dorsum
of the intermediate segments with a geminate, luteous spot; wings
narrow, hyaline, partly milky, pterostigma whitish-yellow ; veins
pale, densely interrupted with fuscous ; anterior wings with two
oblique, fuscous streaks, the one at the middle of the posterior
margin, the other before the apex.
Length to tip of wings 34 rnillhn. Alar expanse 64 millim.
Hab. South Carolina (Zimmerman) ; Columbia ; Brazil.
The specimens from meridional America are a little different;
the occiput is obscurer, less spotted, the prothorax is broader an-
teriorly : but it is hardly a peculiar species.
EUPTILON WESTWOOD.
This genus is very doubtful ; it is only based upon a figure of
Drury. It is a Myrmeleon with pectinated antennae.
1. Eu. ornatum.
Hemerobius ornatus Drury, I, 110, 2, tab. xlvi, fig. 2. — Euptilon ornatum
Drury, ed. "Westwood, ib. — Chauliodes ornatus Rainb. Neur. 445, 3. —
Myrmeleon ornatus Walk. Catal. 410, 217.
Green ; antenna? pectinated ; prothorax anteriorly with a black
point; abdomen with yellow rings, and a middle black line ; wings
hyaline, the anterior «ones with two oblique fuscous lines, at the
apex and at the middle of the posterior margin.
Length to tip of wings 44 millim. Alar expanse 77 millim.
Hab. Dinwiddie, Virginia (Drury).
I am inclined to believe that antennae have been affixed to this
species artificially, or that the wings have been glued to the body
of another kind of insect, by error. The green color is foreign to
the genera of Myrmeleons.
ASCALAPHUS FAB.
Antennae very long, slender, capitate ; body short ; feet short,
stout, tibise with spurs ; wings large, less densely veined than
Myrmeleon.
238 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
* Eyes sulcated.
1. A. hyalinus !
Ascalaphus hyalinus Latr. Humboldt Recueil, II, 118, tab. xl, fig. 7. —
Ascalaphus machayanus Guild. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. XIV, 140,
tab. vii, fig. 11; Walk. Catal. 436, 51. — Ascalaphus senex Burin.!
Handb. II, 1001, 7. — Ascalaphus 4-maculatus Say, Long's Exped- H,
305.
Fusco-ferruginous ; front fuscous, above gray, vertex with fus-
cous vUlosity ; antenna; fuscous, the base with fuscous hair, the
apex luteous, incisures black, club oblong, black, beneath striated
with luteous; eyes lurid posteriorly; thorax fuscous upon the dor-
sum, varied with ferruginous; pectus clothed with white hair; feet
fusco-luteous, tibiae with a narrow, black basal aunulus, apex of the
tarsal articles black ; abdomen fusco-ciuereous, the dorsum with
oblique black streaks each side; wings equal, the apex subobtuse,
base of the anterior ones subemarginated, the base of the posterior
ones with fuscous villosity; hyaline, veins luteous, partly fuscous;
pterostigraa small, uigro-fuscous.
Alar expanse 55 millim. Length of the antenna? 25 millim.
Hob. Savannah; Pennsylvania (Say); Matamoras, Mexico; Cu-
ba ; Island of St. Vincent ; Pecos Pviver, Western Texas (Capt.
Pope).
2. A. avunculus !
Ascalaphus avunculus Hagen!
Very closely allied to the preceding; it* differs in having the
vertex clothed with gray villosity ; the eyes above, posteriorly yel-
low, with a transverse brownish-black band, beneath brownish-
black ; club of the antenna? yellow beneath ; in the males, the
antennas much longer; feet fuscous, tibiae and tarsi black; the head
less thick.
Alar expanse 50 millim. Length of the antenna? 23 ; J1 33
millim.
Hob. Cuba (Poey).
3. A. quadripunctatus !
Ascalaphus quadripunctatus Burm.! Handb. II, 1001, 9. — Ascalaphus tri-
maculatus Lefeb.!
Fuscous; front fuscous, gray above, vertex with fuscous villosity;
antenna? luteo-fuscous, the incisures black; base with fuscous pile,
ASCALAPHUS. ' 239
club oblong, black; thorax with the dorsum fuscons, beneath with
white pile ; feet brown-black, the tibiae exteriorly spotted with
luteous; abdomen brownish-cinereous, the base with white villosity,
each side with an oblique black streak; wings hyaline, veins black,
the costa luteous; pterostigma yellow; the hind wings with three
apical, fuscous clouds.
Alar expanse 60 millim. Length of the antenna 27 millira.
Hob. New York ; Baltimore.
4. A. limbatus !
Ascalaphus limbatus Burm.! Handb. II, 1001, 8 ; Walk. Catal. 436, 53.
Allied to A. avuncuhis, but differs by having shorter antennae,
the club smaller ; the apex of the posterior wings, and the poste-
rior margin of the wings clouded with fuscous.
Alar expanse 50 millim. Length of the antennae 22 millim.
ffab. North America ? Jamaica (Gosse).
Ascalaphus surinamensis Walk. Catal. 439, 57, is this species;
but the description and synonymy does not belong to it.
5. A. subiratus.
Ascalaphus subiratus Walk. Catal. 439, 58.
Black, with black hair ; antennae fulvous, the incisures black,
the club black, testaceous beneath ; thorax striped with testaceous ;
feet piceous; abdomen short; wings hyaline, apex of the anterior
ones subfuscescent, base of the posterior ones blackish-fuscous,
with four oblique abbreviated fuscous bands posteriorly. (From
the description of Walker.)
Alar expanse 58 millim.
Hal). Honduras, Guatemala.
* * Eyes entire.
6. A. albistigma!
Ascalaphus albistigma Walk.! Catal. 452, 80.
Ferruginous, with fuscous hairs; face luteous; antennae luteous,
the club fuscous, yellow beneath ; thorax fulvous, anteriorly fus-
cous ; the sides fuscous, spotted with yellow, an obscure cinereous
stripe above ; feet yellow, tarsi black ; abdomen long, fuscous ;
wings hyaline, the apex fuscescent, pterostigma large, white ; an-
240 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
terior wings with the whole costal margin, and the apex of the
posterior wings fuscous.
Alar expanse 81 millim. Length of the antennae 18 millim.
Hob. Honduras ; Columbia (Appun).
7. A. microcerus.
Byas microfkrus Ramb. Neuropt. 362.
Hob. West Indies.
May it not be A. costatus Burm. Handb. II, 1000, 1. ? (Com-
pare South American Neuroptera.)
FAM. IX. PANORPINA.
Body cylindrical or conical; head exserted ; antennas
shorter than the wings; mouth rostrated; lateral palpi bi-
articulated ; prothorax small ; wings either almost absent or
narrow, equal, longer than the body, narrowed at base; the
posterior wings with no anal space ; tarsi of five articles.
BOREUS LATR.
Ocelli absent ; wings of the males imperfect, of the females
hardly present.
1. B. nivoriundus !
Boreus nivoriundus Fitch! Winter Ins. Amer. Journ. Agricult. 1847, V,
277, 1 ; Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, I, 96, 1 ; Walk.! Catal. 456, 2.
Fusco-aeneous ; mouth, wings, feet, and genital organs fulvous;
apex of the tarsi fuscous.
Length 4 millim.
Hob. New York, April (Asa Fitch).
2. B. brumalis!
Boreus brumalis Fitch! Winter Ins. Amer. Journ. Agricult. 1847, V, 278,
2 ; Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, I, 96, 2 ; Walk.! Catal. 456, 3.
Entirely brassy-black.
Length 3 millim.
Hob. New York, April (Asa Fitch) ; Washington (Osten
Sacken).
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PANORPA
Three ocelli ; wings narrow ; genital organs of the male elon-
gated, forcipated, the last segment inflated ; two tarsal unguiculi
serrated ; antennae setaceous.
1. P. lugubris !
Panorpa lugubris Swederus, Act. Holm. Nov. VIII, 279, 31. Linne, Syst.
Nat. ed. XIII. vol. V, 2647, 10. Klug ! Act. Berol. 1836, 106, 6.
Westw. ! Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond. IV, 188, 11. Walk.! Catal. 462,
11. — Panorpa scorpio Fab. Entom. Syst. II, 97, 3. Oliv. Enc.
Method. VIII, 715, 5. Leach. Zool. Misc. II, 99, tab. xciv, fig.
3_4. Burm. ! Handb. II, 927, 1. Ramb. ! Neuropt. 331, 8.—Bitta-
cus scorpio Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. Ill, 189.
Black, abdomen ferruginous ; the apex black ; wings black, with
three transverse, abbreviated, middle white streaks.
Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hab. South Carolina; Georgia; Florida (Glover).
2. P. rufescens !
Panorpa rufescens Ramb. Neuropt. 330, 6. — Panorpa germanica var.
Walk. Catal. 459, 2?
Head, rostrum and thorax yellowish-rufous ; antennas black, the
extreme base rufous; feet rufo-flavous, apex of the tarsi fuscous,
unguiculi tridentate ; abdomen fuscous, the venter rufo-flavous ;
abdominal segment 5 of the male cylindrical, truncated at the
apex, above obliquely emarginated, with a long process, which is
compressed, somewhat elevated; segments 6 and 7 equal, conical,
apex of segment 6 more inflated ; segment 8 oval, appendages
long, linear ; forceps short, trigonal, the apex unguiculated, slen-
der; wings somewhat yellowish, the apex, a pterostigmatical, nar-
row, maculose band, which is subiuterrupted in the middle, and
some basal spots, brownish-black.
Alar expanse 24 millim.
Hab. Sharon Springs; Trenton Falls, New York; Washington
(Osten Sacken) ; Maryland (Uhler) ; La Chine near Montreal ?
(Barnston).
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3. P. rufa !
Panorpa rufa Gray ! Griffith, Anim. Kingdom, Ins. tab. cv, fig. 2. West-
wood! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 188, 10. Walk.! Catal. 461, 10.—
Panorpa fasciata Klug! Act. Berol. 1836, 105, 2 (partly).
Head rufous, black around the ocelli; rostrum and thorax fusco-
rufous ; antennae brownish-black, the extreme base fusco-rufous ;
feet rufous, apex of the tarsi fuscous ; unguiculi 5-toothed, the
teeth short; abdomen rufous; segment 5 of the male conical, with
the apex truncated ; segments 6 and 7 equal, the base narrow,
cylindrical, subincurved, the apex conical, segment 6 more inflated;
segment 8 narrow, elongate-oval, appendages linear, short ; for-
ceps trigonal, short, the apex slender, unguiculated; wings yellow,
their apex subacute; apex, a subpterostigmatical band, which is
forked behind, a medial costal spot, a basal oblique band, and two
basal spots fuscous.
Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hob. Georgia.
4. P. americana!
Panorpa americana Swederus, Act. Holm. Nov. VIII, 279, 32. Linne,
Syst. Nat. ed. xiii, vol. V, 2647, 9. Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond. IV, 189, 15. Walk. Catal. 463, 15.— Panorpa fasciata Fab.
Ent. Syst. II, 98, 4. Klug! Act. Berol. 1836, 105, 2 (in part).
Ramb. Neuropt. 331, 7 ?
Testaceous; head rufous, black around the ocelli; rostrum rufous;
antennae black, with the extreme base rufous ; feet testaceous, apex
of the tarsi fuscous, unguiculi 4-toothed (9); abdomen of the
male upon the fifth segment with an erect, short horn (from the
description of Westw.); wings yellow, broader at the apex; the
apex, a pterostigmatical broad, straight band, a point upon the
costa of the anterior wings, a basal oblique band, and a basal point
upon the anterior wings, brownish-black.
Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hab. Georgia; Kentucky.
5. P. venosa !
Panorpa venosa Westw. ! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 190, 16 ; Walk. !
Catal. 463, 16. Panorpa fasciata Klug! Act. Berol. 1836, 105, 2 (in
part). Panorpa americana Say ! Collection of Hagen.
Head rufous, black around the ocelli ; antenna black, the ex-
treme base rufous; feet luteo-rufous, the apex of the tarsi fuscous;
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1
unguiculi 4-toothed, teeth long, distant; abdomen fuscous, with
the apex rufous; segment 5 of the abdomen of the male cylindrical,
the apex truncated, subemarginated above, with a long, very much
elevated, triangular process; segments 6 and 7 equal, obconical,
apex of the sixth segment more inflated ; segment 8 orbicular,
with long, linear appendages ; forceps short, unguiculate ; wings
subhyaline, the apex, a pterostigmatical band, which is interrupt-
edly forked behind, a costal, medial spot, which is sometimes
almost absent from the hind wings, a basal band, which is some-
times interrupted, and a basal spot, blackish-brown. (Male and
female.)
Alar expanse 23 — 27 millim.
Hub. Philadelphia (Say) ; Georgia (Abbot) ; Southern Illinois
(Kennicott).
6. P. debilis !
Panorpa debilis Westw. ! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 191, 18. Walk. !
Catal. 464, 18.
Luteo-fuscous ; head rufous, black around the ocelli ; antennae
black, the extreme base rufous ; feet luteous, apex of the tarsi
hardly obscurer; unguiculi 4-toothed, teeth long, distant; abdo-
men fuscous, the apex luteous ; segment 5 of the male cylindrical,
the apex truncated, emarginated above, with a short, very erect,
obtuse, triangular, rather short process ; segment 6 long, obconi-
cal, the base narrow, arcuated ; segment 7 shorter, obconical, the
base a little narrower ; segment 8 elliptical, the apex broad, ap-
pendages linear, long; forceps short, unguiculated; wings hyaline,
subflavescent at base, an apical, fenestrated band, an arcuated,
pterostigmatical one, subinterrupted in the middle, a middle point,
a basal interrupted band, and a basal point, fuscous ; transverse
veins sometimes a little marked with fuscous. (Male.)
Alar expanse 22 — 23 millim.
Hob. Philadelphia ; Trenton Falls, New York ; Savannah,
Georgia.
7. P. nebulosa!
Panorpa nebulosa Westw. ! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 188, 12. Walk. !
Catal. 462, 12.
Luteo-fulvous ; head luteo-rufous, around the ocelli black ; an-
tennas black, the base luteous ; feet luteous ; unguiculi tridentate ;
244 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
abdomen fuscous, the apex luteous ; segment 5 of the male abdo-
men conical, truncated at the apex ; segments 6 and T equal, ob-
conical ; segment 8 oval, appendages long, linear; forceps short,
unguiculated ; wings hyaline, pterostigma subflavous, with a large,
fuscous spot interiorly; a fuscous point on some of the areoles,
which are sometimes larger on the basal areoles.
Alar expanse 22 — 26 millim.
Hub. Trenton Falls ; Washington (Osten Sacken) ; Massachu-
setts (Scudder).
8. P. punctata.
Panorpa punctata Klug! Act. Berol. 1836, 105, 3, fig. 9. Westw. Trans.
Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 188, 12. Walker, Catal. 462, 13.
Testaceous; antennas black; thorax with spots, and the abdomen
at base fuscous; wings subflavescent, narrow, the areoles all pointed
with fuscous. (From the description of Klug.)
Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hal. Mexico (Koppe). It is similar to the preceding species.
9. P. confusa.
Panorpa confusa Westw. ! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 190, 17. Walk.
Catal. 463, 17.
Fulvous ; head black around the ocelli ; antennas black; segment
5 of the abdomen of the male armed with a long, acute spine,
above; segment 6 not emarginated at the base; wings tinged with
luteous, the costa and base deeper luteous; veins blackish; a small
basal point, a slender, interrupted, middle band, a slender, irregu-
lar, pterostigmatical one, upon the middle geniculated, band, and
the apex slenderly, nigricant; the transverse veins, especially
towards the apex of the wings, tinged with black; hind wings less
variegated ; apex of the tarsal articulations black. (From the
description of Westw.)
Alar expanse 24 millim.
Hub. Massachusetts (Harris).
10. P. subfurcata.
Panorpa subfurcata Westw. ! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 191, 19. Walk.
Catal. 464, 19.
Obscure fulvous; head rufescent, black around the ocelli; an-
tennas black, the two basal articles rufescent; dorsum of the thorax
PANORPA. 245
obscure luteous; feet luteous, apex of the tarsal articles obscure;
abdomen luteo-fulvous, the dorsal base obscure ; segment 5 with a
short dorsal horn; segment 6 not emarginated at the base supe-
riorly; wings pale, with two basal spots, a transverse band before
the middle, a transverse, costal medial spot, an oblique pterostig-
matical, irregular band, hardly angulated in the middle, but dilated
at the costa ; the apex, somewhat broadly, upon which are some
white points, and a spot at the anal angle, black ; basal spots of
the posterior wings obsolete. (From the description of West-
wood.)
Alar expanse 24 — 28 millim.
Jfab. Nova Scotia ; St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's
Bay (Barnston, Redman).
11. P. maculosa !
Panorpa maculosa Hagen !
Testaceous; head fulvous, rufo-fuscous around the ocelli; an-
tennas black, the two basal articles fulvous ; dorsum of the thorax
fulvous, spotted with black; feet luteous, the apex fuscous; un-
guiculi 4-toothed, teeth long ; abdomen testaceous, the apex lute-
ous; segment 5 conical, the apex truncated; segments 6 and 7
equal, conical, the sixth stouter, the base above sub-eniarginated ;
segment 8 elongated, oval, appendages linear, long ; forceps short,
unguiculated ; wings hyaline, veins fuscous, apical transverse veins
partly marked with fuscous ; two basal spots, a spot upon the
middle, and some apical spots, fuscous, pterostigma luteous, each
side with a fuscous spot.
Alar expanse 24 millim.
Hob. Pennsylvania (Uhler).
12. P. terminata !
Panorpa terminata Klug ! Act. Berol. 1836, 106, 4, fig. 10. Westwood
Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. IV, 189, 14. Walk. Catal. 463, 14.
Fusco-testaceous ; middle of the head brownish-black, rostrum
rufous; prothorax entirely, and the sides of the mesothorax blackish-
brown ; antenna? black, the two basal articles rufous ; feet luteous,
unguiculi tridentate ; wings hyaline, the apex fuscous. (Female.)
Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hab. Mexico (Deppe).
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BITTACUS LATREILLE.
Ocelli three; wings narrow; antennae setaceous, very slender ;
abdomen rather long, cylindrical, feet longer than the wings, the
apex of the tibiae calcarated; tarsi with a single, long, simple nail.
1. B. mexicanus.
Bittacus ntexicanus King! Act. Berol. 1836, 99, 6. Walk. Catal. 466, 6.
Testaceous ; head with a middle spot, and apices of the femora
and tibias with a vestige, fuscous ; antennas almost unclothed; wings
subflavescent, veins and transverse marks obscurer ; appendages
of the male long, narrow, incurved. (From the description of
King.)
Alar expanse 46 millim.
Nab. Mexico (Deppe).
2. B. pilicornis !
Bittacus pilicornis Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 196, 4. Walk.
Catal. 468, 15.
Pale fusco-luteous, shining ; head fuscous between the ocelli ;
antennas luteo-fuscous, with long and dense pile ; wings sublutes-
cent, transverse veins obsoletely banded with fuscous ; superior
appendages of the male broad, triangular, flat.
Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hub. Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken); La Chine near Montreal
(Barnston).
3. B. strigosus!
Bittacus strigosus Hagen !
Pale testaceous, shining ; head black around the ocelli ; palpi
black ; antennas pale, sparingly and shortly pilose ; apex of the
femora and tibiae blackish-fuscous; wings hyaline, with some basal,
fuscous points, transverse veins broadly banded with fuscous ;
pterostigma a little clouded ; superior appendages of the male
broad, oblong, the superior margin broadly excised, pilose.
Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hub. Chicago ; Washington ; St. Louis (Osten Sacken).
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4. B. punctiger.
Bittacus punctiger Westw. ! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 195, 2. Walk.
Catal. 468, 13.
Testaceo-fulvous ; femora sparingly clothed with black, bristly
hair, tibise with a slender, apical black ring ; wings yellowish-
hyaline, with numerous, rather obscure points, especially at the
base of the longitudinal veins, and at the transverse veins ; veins
pale. (From the description of Westwood.)
Alar expanse 42 millim.
Hob. Georgia.
5. B. stigmaterus !
Bittacus stigmaterus Say, Godman's West. Quart. Report, II, 164. — Bittacus
pallidipennis Westw.! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 195, 3. Walk.
Catal. 468, 14.
Fulvo-luteous ; ocelli somewhat surrounded with fuscous ; palpi
black ; anterior femora and apex of the tibise sub-fuscous ; wings
luteo-fusco-hyaline, the pterostigma a little obscurer; veins luteous;
superior appendages of the male oblong, long, the apical margin
subemarginated above.
Alar expanse 37 — 46 millim.
Hob. Missouri, near Fort Osage (Say) ; Maryland (Uhler) ;
Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sacken).
The female from Maryland is smaller, and agrees better with
the descriptions and size of B. stigmaterus, and pallidipennis.
The male from Georgia is larger (46 millim.), the wings are also
broader, but it is hardly different.
6. B. occidentis.
Bittacus occidentis Walk.! Catal. 469, 16.
Testaceous ; apex of the rostrum, the palpi, and the antennae
black ; dorsal middle of the thorax fuscous ; posterior femora ful-
vous, with the apex black, the anterior femora black, with the base
fulvous ; anterior tibia? piceous ; wings sublurid, pterostigma fus-
cous ; veins black. (From the description of Walker.)
Alar expanse 46 millim.
Hob, Erie, Pennsylvania.
It is very much like the preceding species. Is it distinct from
it?
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7. B. apicalis!
Bittacus apicalis Uhler ! MSS.
Luteous, shining ; ocelli somewhat obscured with black ; apex
of the tarsal articles brownish-black ; wings hyaline, the apex
nigro-fuscous ; abdomen fuscous ; the superior appendages of the
male short, oblong, the apex broader, obliquely truncated.
Alar expanse 36 millim.
Hub. Southern Illinois (Kennicott).
(The pterostigma of the female is dusky, and there is a dusky
mark each side upon the upper part of the face ; the antenna are
honey-yellow, obscurer towards the apex, and covered with black-
ish pile. Uhler.)
MEROPE NEWMAN.
Ocelli absent; eyes large, reniform, connate at the vertex;
antenna short, thick, the apex narrowed ; wings broad, transverse
veins very numerous ; subcosta and radius joined together at the
apex ; feet shorter than the wings, slender, apex of the tarsi with
two unguiculi, which are entire, and a plautula between them ;
abdomen of the male with a very large forceps.
1. M. tuber !
Merope tuber Newm.! Entom. Mag. V, 180. Westw.! Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond. IV, 194, tab. xiv. fig. 2. Walk.! Catal. 106, 1.
•
Luteous ; apex of the rostrum fuscous ; antenna? luteous, fus-
cous in the middle ; prothorax luteo-fuscous ; feet luteous, the
anterior ones a little thicker, luteo-fuscous ; apex of the tibia? with
two spurs ; wings cinereous, veins luteous, radius and longitudinal
ones posteriorly, black ; anterior wings on the posterior margin at
the base, with a small, rounded, fuscous lamina; abdomen luteous;
appendages of the male very long, flat, almost as long as the body,
luteous ; the basal article almost straight, the base a little curved ;
the apical article shorter, cylindrical, the apex dilated, emarginated,
subbifid.
Alar expanse 30 millim.
Hab. Berkeley Springs, Virginia (Osten Sacken) ; Pennsylvania.
An extremely rare insect ; it is not to be met with in any of the
European collections, excepting the type (a female) in the British
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Museum, and a male and female in my own collection ; it is not
extant in the American collections (teste Osten Sacken), excepting
a unique female in that of Dr. Asa Fitch. The genus and species
is very singular and abnormal; perhaps the most remarkable of all
hitherto known Neuroptera. It certainly belongs to the Panor-
pina,
I
FAM. X. PHRYGANINA.
Body compressed; head exserted ; antenna long, setiform;
mouth connate, imperfect; labial palpi Inarticulate; pro-
thorax small; wings longer than the body, transverse veins
rather few; posterior wings with the anal space large,
plicated (rarely absent); tarsi with 5 articulations. Larva
aquatic ; living in a tube-like case.
I. Maxillary palpi differing in the sexes.
I Sub-Family PHRYGANIDES.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4; maxillary palpi in the males 4-jointed,
in the females 5-jointed; three ocelli.
NEURONIA LEACH.
Antennae shorter than the wings ; wings rather broad, the apex
ovate, naked or almost naked.
1. N. irrorata !
Phryganea irrorata Fab.! Sp. Ins. I, 389, 9; Mantis. Ins. I, 245, 10; En-
tom. Syst. II, 77, 11. — Neuronia concatenata Walk.! Catal. 8, 4.
Rufous, shining; antennse blackish-piceous, the basal article ru-
fous within ; head and thorax clothed with white hair; feet luteous,
with black spines ; abdomen testaceous ; anterior wings whitish-
hyaline, densely,, transversely irrorated with fuscous ; posterior
wings hyaline, the apex spotted with fuscous, the anterior margin
with a medial, larger, fuscous spot. (Female.)
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 32 mjllim.
Hob. St. John's Bluff, East Florida; N. Red River (Kennicott).
The insect does not altogether agree with the description of
Fabricius ; the type in the collection of Banks is to be examined
again.
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2. N. pardalis.
Neuronia pardalis Walk.! Catal. 7, 3.
Black, clothed with luteous hair, beneath luteous ; anterior fe-
mora ferruginous ; anterior wings confertly pointed with luteous
(which are confluent in the males) ; posterior wings anteriorly
pointed with luteous, and with a broad luteous, subapical band.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 21 millim. Alar expanse 50 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman).
3. N. ocelligera.
Neuronia ocelligera Walk.! Catal. 8, 6.
Black, with pale hair; tibiae piceous; wings testaceous, the an-
terior ones reticulated and guttated with black, posterior wings
having the margin spotted with black. Male. (From the de-
scription of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 16 millim. Alar expanse 28 millim.
Hub. Nova Scotia (Redman).
It is very much like N. reticulata of Europe; is it different?
4. N. signata.
Phryganea signata Fab. Sp. Ins. I, 389, 7; Mant. Ins. I, 245, 8 ; Entom.
Syst. II, 76, 8.
Small ; head fuscous ; wings grayish-fuscous, shining, spotted
with yellow, the posterior margin striated with yellow. (From
the description of Fabricius.)
Length to tip of wings ?
Hob. North America (collection of Banks) ; does it belong to
this genus ?
5. N. semifasciata !
Phryganea semifasciata Say, Western Quart. Report. II, 161, 4 ; American
Entomology, II, pi. 44 (upper figures). — Neuronia fusca Walk.!
Catal. 9, 7.
Fulvous; antenna annulated with fuscous, the apex fulvous;
head fuscous ; dorsum of the mesothorax each side, black ; head
and thorax partly ciliated with black ; feet with brown spines ;
wings fulvous, the veins obscurer, the anterior ones transversely
flecked with brownish-black, a small basal spot, and an abrupt,
medial streak at the posterior margin, brownish-black, the disk
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with two yellowish points; posterior wings with the apical margin
hardly irrorated with fuscous, having a short, fuscous subapical
band.
Male. Having the dorsal lamina elongated, the sides involuted,
the apex with two long spines; superior appendages longer than
the lamina ; ventral lamina 4-toothed.
Female. Ventral lamina shining, the base brownish-black, very
much narrower at the apex, recurved, bifid.
Length to tip of wings 23 — 28 millim. Alar expanse 44 — 52
millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton) ; Nova Scotia (Redman) ; St. John, Newfoundland; Ohio;
Pennsylvania; New Jersey; Massachusetts; Kentucky (Say); Wash-
ington (Osten Sacken); New York (Collection of Hagen). Every-
where north of the Southern States (Uhler).
A variety has the baud absent from the posterior wings (Nova
Scotia).
6. N. postica!
Neuronia postica Walk. ! Catal. 9, 9.
Fulvous; antenna? annulated with fuscous, the apex fulvous;
head and thorax fuscous, with fuscous hair; feet with fulvous spines ;
wings fulvous, veins of the same color ; the anterior ones trans-
versely irrorated with fuscous, a small basal spot and an abrupt
streak upon the middle of the posterior margin, fuscous; disk with
two whitish points ; hind wings with an angulated, subapical, fus-
cous band.
Male. Having the dorsal lamina elongated, the apex narrower,
incised ; superior appendages with a longer lamina ; the ventral
lamina bidentate.
Female. Ventral lamina shining, middle of the base brownish-
black, each side ciliated with fulvous, the apex narrow, recurved,
entire ; each side with a rather long anal palpus.
Length to tip of wings 28 millim. Alar expanse 52 millim.
Uab. Georgia (Abbot) ; Pennsylvania (Collection of Hagen) ;
Washington ; Massachusetts (Osten Sacken) ; N. Red River
(Kennicott).
A variety has the band absent from the posterior wings.
Do not some of the localities cited for N. semifasciata Say, be-
long to N. posticat
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7. N. ocellifera !
Neuronia ocellifera Walk. ! Catal. 8, 5.
Fulvous; antennae shorter, fuscons; thorax ciliated with fuscous-
gray; wings short, fulvous, veins same color; anterior wings a
little transversely irrorated with fuscous, a medial spot upon the
posterior margin fuscous ; disk with two whitish points ; posterior
wings with an angulated baud, which is subapical, fuscous ; feet
with gray spines.
Male. Dorsal lamina long, acute, ensiform, bifid ; superior ap-
pendages shorter than the lamina ; ventral lamina bidentate.
Female. Ventral lamina shining, middle of the base fuscous; the
apex narrower, recurved, bi-impressed, ciliated.
Length to tip of wings 20 uiillim. Alar expanse 40 — 42 millim.
Hob. Northern Illinois ; K Red River (Kennicott) ; Ohio
(Schaum).
8. N. notata.
Phnjgaiifa notata Fab. Sp. Ins. I, 390, 12 ; Mant. Ins. I, 246, 15 ; Entom.
Syst. II, 78, 18.
Fuscous ; antennae and feet testaceous ; anterior wings yellowish-
gray, unicolored, with a marginal fuscous spot; posterior wings
white, hyaline, shining. (From the description of Fabricius.)
Length to tip of wings — ? millim.
Hob. North America (Collection of Banks).
Is this N. semifasciata ? The type, if I ain not mistaken, yet
exists.
PHRYGANEA LINNE.
Antennte robust, as long as the wings ; anterior wings pilose.
1. Ph. cinerea.
Phryganea cinerea Walk. ! Catal. 4, 2.
Testaceous, striped above with cinereous; apex of the anterior
tibite, and the tips of the articles of the anterior tarsi, black; an-
terior wings fuscous, densely guttated with cinereous, posterior
wings fusco-ciuereous. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 26—28 millim. Alar expanse 48—54
millim.
Hal. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
LIMNOPHILUS. 253
ton). It is very much like P. striata Linn. (Beclcwitlm Steph.),
but differs obviously by the anal appendages of the male ; a descrip-
tion of those parts is wanting to me.
2. Ph. vestita !
Neuronia vestita Walk. ! Catal. 10, 10.
Ferruginous ; antennae fuscous, thorax bivittated above with
fuscous, and clothed with fuscous hair; feet luteous, anterior femora,
apex of the tibiae and apex of the tarsal articles, fuscous ; apex of
the intermediate tibiae fuscous ; anterior wings narrow, rufo-fuscous
closely irrorated with fuscous, the disk paler ; posterior wings cine-
reous, the apex margined with fuscous. Female.
Length to tip of wings 21 milliui. Alar expanse 38 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
3. Ph. commixta.
Neuronia commixta Walk.! Catal. 10, 11.
Black, clothed with pale hair ; beneath, antennae and feet ferru-
ginous; anterior wings fuscous, with a large discoidal sub-hyaline
spot, and apical whitish points, veins fuscous, posterior wings sub-
cinereous, the apex and posterior margin fuscous. (From the de-
scription of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
Allied to Ph. minor, Curtis, of Europe.
2 Sub-Fam. LIMNOPHILIDES.
Maxillary palpi of the males three, of the females five-jointed;
ocelli three ; anterior wings rather narrow, the apex obliquely
truncated or rounded.
LIMNOPHILUS LEACH.
Spurs arranged 1, 3, 4 ; apex of the anterior wings truncated.
Sub-Genus Colpotaulius KOLENATI.
Posterior wings with the middle of the hind margin emargi-
nated.
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1. L. perpusillus !
Limnephilus perpusillus Walk.! Catal. 35, 54.
Testaceous, with testaceous hair ; antennae fulvous ; anterior
wings narrow, the apex a little acuminate, subtestaceous, poste-
riorly and the apex obscurely guttated ; veins fulvous ; posterior
wings whitish. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
It is very closely allied to Colpotaulius incisus Stephens.
Sub-Genus Limnophilus LEACH.
Anterior wings narrow, the apex broader, obliquely truncated.
2. L. rhombicus !
L. rhombica Linn. Walk.! Catal. 22, 13. (With the synonymy.)— Phry-
ganea rhombica Otho Fab. Fauna Groen. 196, 153. Berlin. Ent. Zeit.
Ill, 143.
Ochreous, with luteous hair, antennas luteous ; thorax luteo-fus-
cous ; feet luteous, tibise with yellow, tarsi with black spines ; an-
terior wings ochreous, rufous posteriorly, with a large, discoidal,
oblique, rhombical spot, and another, not well defined, about the
anastomosis, subhyaline ; posterior wings hyaline, the apex sub-
flavescent.
Male. Posterior wings underneath with a subapical fuscous
fringe ; superior appendages oblong, the apex and beneath a little
emarginated, with black teeth.
Length to tip of wings 23 millim. Alar expanse 44 millim.
Hob, St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; Greenland (Fab.); Europe; Asia.
The larva described by Otho Fab. 1. c. p. 197, belongs to Co-
lymbetes dolabratus.
3. L. interrogationis.
Phryganea interrogationis Zetterst. Ins. Lapp. 1063,12. — GrammotauUus
interrogationis Kol. Trichopt. 40, 3. Walk. Catal. 19, 6; Berlin.
Ent. Zeit. Ill, 143.
Grayish, shining ; antennas testaceous ; head and thorax hairy,
each side black; feet testaceous, posterior femora with a lateral
line, which is grayish; wings rather narrow, anterior ones brown-
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ish, with numerous, confluent fuscous points ; a discoidal longitu-
dinal line and a middle spot, hyaline ; posterior wings subhyaline,
the apex with a small, fuscous line. (From the description of Zet-
terstedt.)
Length to tip of wings 20 millitn. Alar expanse 34 — 40
milllm.
Hab. Greenland ; Lapland ; Europe.
It is not sufficiently known to me.
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4. L. combinatus.
Limnephilus combinatus Walk.! Catal. 28, 34.
Ferruginous, clothed with pale hair; abdomen and feet testa-
ceous ; anterior wings fuscous, the anterior margin testaceous, a
large rhombical, discoidal spot and some points, testaceous ; the
apex testaceous, sprinkled with fuscous ; posterior wings hyaline.
Male. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 18 millirn. Alar expanse 34 millini.
Hab. St. John, Newfoundland.
It is allied to L. rhombicus.
5. L. divergens.
Limnephilus divergens Walk.! Catal. 30, 39.
Testaceous, clothed with pale hair ; antennas ferruginous ; the
anterior wings closely dotted with ferruginous tubercles, the apex
sub-fuscous ; a broader tubercle at the base of the third apical
areole ; posterior wings whitish. (From the description of
Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hab. North America.
6. L. dossuarius.
Phryganea dossuaria Say, American Entom. Ill, pi. 44. Lowest figure.
Pale ochreous ; antenna fuscous ; abdomen obscure, apex of the
segments pale ; anterior wings whitish-yellow, veins black ; some
transverse, sometimes dilated lines, a pterostigmatical, quadrangu-
lar spot, and an anal one, black; posterior wings with two costal
spots, and the margin obscure. (From the description of Say.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 22 millim.
Hab. Salem, Massachusetts (Say).
Not seen by me ; is it a Limnophilus ?
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7. L. interruptus.
Phrygaitca interrupta Say, American Entom. Ill, pi. 44, right middle
figure.
Clothed with grayish hair; palpi and antennae black; tibia? ob-
scure, tarsi obscure, the joints pale at their bases; anterior wings
gray, obscurer upon the disk, a longitudinal, medially interrupted
line, extending from the humerus to near the apex, and an abbre-
viated line nearer the costal margin, towards the apex, black ; the
posterior area hoary with white pubescence, immaculate; posterior
wings ochreous, the apex broadly black. (From the description
of Say.)
Length to tip of wings 21 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hal. New Jersey (Say).
I have not seen it ; does it belong to Limnophilus ?
8. L. radiatus.
Phryganea radiata Say, Long's Exped. II, 308, 2.
Pale yellowish-fuscous; antenna? fuscous; vertex and prothorax
pilose ; mesothorax each side and two dorsal stripes hairy ; anterior
wings subhyaliue, beyond the middle a large fuscous circle from
which a dilated line proceeds to the tip, another to the inferior
angle, a third to the carpal spot, and a fourth towards the base,
interrupted in its middle, the interior margin, particularly at the
base, fuscous; surface of the wings with scattered hairs, those of
the nervures more distinct and blackish. (From the description
of Say.)
Length to tip of wings 19 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim.
I have not seen it; does it belong to Limnophilus'?
9. L. sericeus.
Phryganea sericea Say, Long's Exped. II, p. 309, 3.
Blackish, sericeous; antennse fuscous, annulated with yellow;
head with a cinereous gloss, sparingly pilose ; thorax with a cine-
reous gloss ; posterior feet pale ochreous, sericeous, with black setas ;
anterior wings varied with fuscous and pruinose, a transverse, quad-
rate, black spot on the middle of the posterior margin ; membrane
densely pilose; veins with black hairs; posterior wings immaculate.
(From the description of Say.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. Northwest Territory (Say).
I have not seen it; does it belong to Limnophilus?
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10. L. externus!
Limnophilus externus Ilagen!
Luteous ; head and thorax obscure above, with luteous hair;
antennas (base) luteous; feet ochreous, with black spines; apex
of the abdomen obscurer ; anterior wings shining, narrow, hardly
luteo-pilose, luteous, densely guttated with fuscous, the marks often
confluent ; a rhombical spot upon the middle, which is oblique,
narrow, hyaline ; the anterior margin immaculate ; at the anasto-
mosis are a few spots; veins luteous, the fourth apical areole narrow
at base, shorter than the rest; posterior wings luteo-hyaline.
Female. The four anal appendages almost equal, short, acute ;
the valvule short, incised.
Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 38 millim.
Hab. K Red River (Kennicott).
11. L. gravidus !
Limnophilus gravidus Hagen !
Rufo-fuscous ; antennae (at base) with luteous hair; head and
disk of the thorax rufous, with luteous hair, each side with black
hair ; abdomen luteous beneath ; feet luteous, with black spines,
base of the four anterior tibiae, as well as their middle and apex,
and the apex of the posterior tibise, black, apex of the-tarsal arti-
cles black ; wings long, broad at the apex, a little rounded, sparingly
clothed with white hair ; surface grayish-hyaline, closely pointed
with fuscous, points often confluent ; an oblique, discoidal streak,
and a semicircle at the apex of the anastomosis, pale hyaline ; veins
pale, sparingly interrupted with fuscous ; posterior wings luteo-
hyaline, their apex obsoletely spotted with fuscous, and au obscurer
spot at the pterostigma. Female.
Hab. North California.
12. L. vastus !
Limnophilus vastus Hagen!
Nigro-fuscous; base of antennse fuscous; head and thorax with
black hair; mesothorax black, a grayish spot upon the middle, and
each side behind marked with a black point ; feet luteous, with
black spines; four anterior tibise at base, middle and apex, apex
of the posterior tibia?, and apices of the tarsal articles, black ;
wings long, broader at the apex, elliptical, grayish-hyaline, almost
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nude, all over closely covered with fuscous dots, the anterior mar-
gin with fewer dots; veins fuscous, sparingly interrupted with pale;
posterior wings grayish-hyaline, obscurer at the apex. Female.
Length to tip of wings 21 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hob. Isle Kenai, Russian America.
13. L. perjurus'
Lirnnophilus perjurus Hagen!
Luteo-fuscous, with luteous hair; feet luteous, with black spines;
wings narrow, the apex obliquely truncated, luteo-ochreous, almost
shining, with luteous veins; apical veins a little clouded; posterior
wings luteo-hyaline. Female.
Length to tip of wings 16 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim.
Jfab. Isle Kenai, Russian America.
Allied to CJiaetotaulius striatus Kolenati.
14. L. hyalinus !
Limnophilus hyalinus Hagen!
Pale ochreous, with yellow hair ; antennas ochreous ; feet pale,
with black spines ; anterior wings pale ochreo-hyaline, somewhat
glossy, veins ochreous ; the fourth apical cellule acute at base ;
posterior wings pale yellowish-hyaline.
Male. Superior appendages ovate, prominent ; the inferior ones
obtuso-acute.
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 22 millini.
Hob. N. Red River (Kennicott).
Sub-Genus Goniotaulius KOL.
15. L. indicans.
Limnephilus indicans Walk.! Catal. 23, 18.
Ferruginous ; antennae paler ; palpi and feet testaceous ; ante-
rior wings testaceous, margined with whitish, with a short discoidal
vitta, contracted in the middle, white, drawn out into five rays
towards the apex; posterior wings whitish. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 38 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
It is allied to L. elegans Curtis.
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16. L. despectus.
Limncphilus despectus Walk.! Catal. 31, 42.
Grayish-ferruginous, with pale pile, and longer hair, which is
black ; antennas subfuscous, the bases of the articles testaceous ;
maxillary palpi fuscous, labial palpi testaceous ; abdomen and feet
testaceous ; mesothorax above with a double whitish streak ; ante-
rior wings fuscous, freckled with whitish ; thyridium and first sub-
apical areole with a whitish spot; costa and disk towards the apex
still more whitish; posterior wings whitish. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hab. Nova Scotia (Redman).
Allied to L. griseus Linn.
17. L. nebulosus.
Limnephilus nebulosus Kirby. Faun. Bor. Amer. 253, 349 ; Walk. Catal.
50, 126.
Black, with white hair ; antenna; (at base) black ; mesothorax
testaceous ; superior wings testaceous, spotted*and irrorated with
whitish, the costal area immaculate ; posterior wings whitish, with
testaceous veins; feet testaceous. (From the description of Kirby.)
Length of body 15 millim.
Hab. North America, latitude 65°.
18. L. multifarius.
Limncphilus multifarius Walk.! Catal. 32,43. — Phryganea variegata Barn-
ston, Mss. — Limnephilus perforatus Walk. Catal. 33, 46. (In part.)
Black, with pale hair, and longer pile, which is black ; antennae
fuscous, annulated with testaceous; feet testaceous; anterior wings
fuscous, freckled with whitish ; thyridium and base of the apical
areoles spotted with white ; posterior wiugs cinereous. (From the
description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; L. perforatus Walk, (from St. Martin's Falls), certainly is
the same species; a very much mutilated specimen from Arctic
America (Mackenzie and Slave Rivers, Richardson) is different,
but indeterminable; possibly the true L. nebulosus of Kirby. L.
despectus and L. multifarius are very closely allied ; are they dis-
tinct?
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19. L. femoralis. ,
Limnephilus femoralis Kirby, Faun. Bor. Amer. 253, 350 ; Walk. Catal.
50, 127.
Black ; feet testaceous, femora black; anterior wings dilute tes-
taceous, spotted and freckled with white ; posterior wings white,
with the veins testaceous. (From the description of Kirby.)
Length of body 14 millim.
Hab. North America, latitude 65° (Richardson).
I have never seen it; very closely allied to L. nebulosus Kirby.
20. L. submonilifer.
Limnephilus submonilifer Walk.! Catal. 33, 48.
Black, with pale hair, and longer, black pile ; bases of the
antennal articles testaceous ; abdomen ferruginous beneath ; feet
testaceous ; anterior wings fuscous, a discoidal, whitish spot, and
spots, which are almost obsolete, hyaline ; a line anteriorly, and
two posteriorly, black and dotted with whitish ; posterior wings
subcinereous. Female. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hal. North America.
It is very closely allied to L. obscimts Ramb. Is it different?
21. L. extractus.
Limnophilus extractus Walk. I Catal. 34, 49.
Obscure testaceous, with pale hair ; apex of the antennae fus-
cous ; palpi and feet pale testaceous ; mesothorax bivittated with
fuscous ; abdomen fuscous above ; wings dirty whitish, anterior
ones with the posterior margin testaceous ; veins pale testaceous.
Young male. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
May this not be L. hyalinus ?
22. L. indivisus.
Limnephilus indivisus Walk.! Catal. 34, 51.
Pale testaceous ; antennae a little obscure ; anterior wings sub-
testaceous, sub-tuberculated, veins testaceous, pterostigma subfus-
cous ; posterior wings hyaline. (From the description of Walker.)
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Length to tip of wings 15 raillim. Alar expanse 28 millim.
Nab. Nova Scotia (Redman).
It is allied to L. impurus, Rambur.
23. L. subguttatus.
Limnephilus subguttatus Walk. I Catal. 34, 52.
Testaceous, with pale hair ; base of the anterior wings, margin
behind, and the apex subguttated with whitish, a fuscous spot at
the pterostigma which is broadly surrounded with hyaline ; poste-
rior wings subhyaline. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
It is allied to L. rufus Rambur.
24. L. subpunctulatus !
Phryganea subpunctulata Zetterst. Ins. Lapp. 1065, 20. — Limnephilus
stipatus Walk.! Catal. 29, 37.
Black, tinged with gray ; covered with luteous hair ; antennre
fuscous, annulated with luteous ; thorax black-gray, above with a
double, luteous, hairy stripe ; abdomen annulated beneath with lu-
teous ; feet yellowish, with black spines ; wings whitish-hyaline,
somewhat clothed with snow-white hair, partly veined with fuscous,
marked with large, confluent, fuscous guttte, the anterior margin,
disk, and thyridium, almost immaculate ; posterior wings whitish-
hyaline.
Female. Four anal appendages short, acute, yellowish, valvule
broader, emarginated.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; Arctic America, Mackenzie and Slave Rivers (Richard-
son) ; Europe, Umea, Lapland.
25. L. trimaculatus ! .
Phryganea trimaculata Zetterst.! Ins. Lapp. 1065, 18 ; Kolen. Tricliopt.
53, 7; Walk. Catal. 26, 27. — Limnophilus partitus Walk.! Catal.
32, 45.
Black, with black and white hair; antennas fuscous, annulated
with brown, the basal article black; feet testaceous, with black
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spines, femora black ; anterior wings fuscous, veined with fuscous,
a rhorabical, medial spot, and some larger spots about the anas-
tomosis, whitish-hyaline, somewhat clothed with snow-white hair ;
posterior wings cinereo-hyaline.
Var. Wings pale. (Young.)
Length to. tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls. Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; Europe, Lapland (Zetterstedt) ; Iceland (Staudinger).
26. L. pudicus!
Limnophilus pudicus Hagen !
Fusco-cinereous, with fuscous hair ; antennae fuscous, subannu-
lated with pale, the basal article blackish-fuscous ; abdomen testa-
ceous beneath ; feet testaceous, with black spines, anterior ones a
little obscure ; anterior tibiae spotted with black, apices of the tar-
sal articles blackish ; wings brownish-hyaline, partly with fuscous
veins, the posterior margin and apex obsoletely guttated with fus-
cous ; pterostigma fuscous, with a discoidal subhyaline spot ; pos-
terior wings grayish-hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millira.
Hal). New York ; Washington (Osten Sackeu).
Allied to L. costalis, Stephens.
27. L. griseus !
Phryganea grisea Linn. — Limnephilus griseus Walk.! Catal. 27, 28. (With
the synonyms) ; Berlin. Ent. Zeit. Ill, p. 143.
Rufo-cinereous ; antennas fuscous, annulated with pale ; thorax
paler in the middle ; abdomen blackish-gray, each side with a lu-
tepus stripe ; feet testaceous ; anterior wings narrow, cinereous,
spotted with fuscous and black, the apex and posterior margin with
spots which are often confluent ; a rhombical spot upon the mid-
dle, and spots about the anastomosis, which are milky-hyaline;
veins fuscous; posterior wings grayish-hyaline, the apex obscurer.
Var. Points and spots partly or altogether confluent, or almost
absent.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 22 millim.
Hub. Greenland (Kolenati) ; Europe ; Asia, common every-
where.
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28. L. plaga.
Limnephilus plaga Walk.! Catal. 35,53.
Testaceous, with pale hair, and longer black pile ; anterior
wings pale testaceous, a large, snbquadrate, fuscous spot behind
the middle ; the apex subreticulated with fuscous, and with two
patches of fuscous. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 13 millini. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman).
Allied to L. trimaculata ; — a most beautiful species.
Goniotaulius sitchensis Kolenati, Wiener Ent. Monatschr. 1859,
p. 17, from North America is spoken of, but only by name ; it is
unknown to me.
Sub-Genus Desmotaulius KOLENATI.
29. L. bimaculatus.
Limnephilus bimaculatus Walk.! Catal. 30, 40.
Testaceous, with pale hair, and longer, black pile; antennae fer-
ruginous; thorax bivittated with piceons; anterior wings obso-
letely irrorated with pale, especially at the base ; posterior wings
whitish. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 19 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton).
It is allied to L. famigatus Germar, but the wings are shorter.
30. L. planifrons!
Desmotaulius planifrons Kol. Trich. 56, 1 ; Walk. Catal. 36, 56.
Fuscous, with luteous hairs; antennas brown, annulated with
luteous ; head with two tubercles posteriorly, prothorax, and a
double stripe upon the metathorax, luteous; feet luteous, with
black spines; anterior wings broader, luteo-fuscous, with fuscous
hair, obsoletely marked with luteous; at the posterior margin the
veins elevated fuscous ; posterior wings luteo-hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. Greenland ; Labrador (Collection of Hagen).
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ANABOLIA STEPHENS.
Spurs 1, 3, 4; apex of the anterior wings elliptical.
1. A. sordida!
Anabolia sordida Hagen !
Rufo-fuscous, with black hair; antennae fuscous ; head and thorax
at disk rufous ; feet rufo-fuscous, with black spines, the tibiae ob-
scurer exteriorly; anterior wings soiled-luteous, densely pointed
with fuscous, almost naked, finely rugulose, thyridium pale ; ele-
vated veins snaooth, fuscous, the apex partly interrupted with
luteous ; posterior wings fusco-hyaline.
Male. Superior anal appendages long, laminated, the apex a
little oblique; the inferior appendages acute, a little shorter,
oblique.
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 35 millim.
Hob. N. Red River; Northern Illinois (Kennicott).
2. A. punctatissima,
Hallesus punctatissimus Walk. ! Catal. 17, 16.
Testaceous, broad ; antennae stout; anterior wings broad, finely
rugulose, closely freckled with whitish, the anterior margin almost
whitish; a spot upon the middle, and the thyridium whitish ; pos-
terior wings whitish. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman).
3. A. consocia.
Limncphilus consocius Walk. ! Catal. 33, 47.
Ferruginous, with pale hair ; base of the antennae black ; thorax
with a broad black stripe ; abdomen black above ; feet testaceous ;
anterior wings testaceous, closely irrorated with whitish, the spots
often confluent; veins fuscous; posterior wings subhyaliue. (From
the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hob. North America.
It is allied to Stathmophorus striatus Kolenati.
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4. A. modesta!
Anabolia modesta Hagen !
Nigro-piceous, with black hair ; antennae black, narrowly annu-
lated with luteous; feet luteous, with black spines, femora piceous;
anterior wings obtuse at the apex, fuscous, almost naked, subrugu-
lose, sparingly irrorated with luteous, veins fuscous; posterior
wings fusco-hyaline.
Male. Superior anal appendages laminated, the apex incurved.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hob. Labrador (Christopher).
HALLESUS STEPHENS.
Spurs arranged 1, 3, 3.
1. H. scabripennis !
Limnephila scabripennis Ramb. I Neuropt. 488, 30; Walk. Catal. 47, 105.
— Neuroma antica Walk. ! Catal. 9, 8.
Ferruginous, with luteous hair ; antennae ferruginous, obsoletely
annulated ; abdomen luteous beneath ; feet luteous, with black
spines; apex of the anterior wings broad, elliptical, lurid, sub-
tuberculated, with numerous fuscous points, some of which are
confluent; with a short, discoidal, incurved, fuscous band, veins
lurid; posterior wings luteo-hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
2. H. amicus!
Hallesus amicus Hagen !
Luteous, with luteous hair; antennae luteous; head, thorax, and
dorsum of the abdomen fuscous ; feet yellowish, with black spines;
anterior wings with the apex obtuse, pale luteous, subuude, sub-
tuberculated, with an apical band and another posteriorly, at the
elevated veins, fuscous, both longitudinal ; veins luteous, the fourth
and fifth apical ones, and behind the elevated one, fuscous ; poste-
rior wings luteo-hyaline. Male and female.
Male. Superior appendages small, luteous, ovate ; the larger
hooks fuscous, distant between the superior appendages.
Length to tip of wings 17 millim. Alar expanse 32 millim.
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ffab. New Orleans.
May it not be H. indistinctus Walker ?
3. H. hostis !
Hallesus hostis Hagen !
Luteo-rufous, with luteous hair; antennae stout, luteous; thorax
each side above, rufo-fuscous ; feet luteous, with black spines ; apex
of the wings broader ; pale luteo-hyaline, hardly with luteous hairs,
subrugulous, base, at the anal angle, and the third apical vein
fuscous ; a large, oblique, paler spot upon the middle, veins lu-
teous ; posterior wings luteo-hyaline. Male and female.
Male. Posterior appendages short, luteous, ovate, adpressed;
the intermediate ones longer, straight, conical, fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim.
Hab. N. Red River ; Northern Illinois (Kennicott).
4. H. guttifer !
Halesus guttifer Walk.! Catal. 16, 15.
Testaceous ; antennas ferruginous ; anterior wings tuberculous,
with an obsolete, subfuscous spot in the apical areolets, another
at the thyridium, and a black dot in the third apical areolet ;
posterior wings whitish ; feet and palpi testaceous.
Male. The fuscous spots of the anterior wings are sometimes
obsolete.
Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 36 — 42 millim.
flab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton) ; Georgia (Abbot); New Orleans.
It is very much like Enoicyla subfasciata Say, but the spurs will
easily distinguish it.
5. H. indistinctus.
Limnephilus indistinctus Walk.! Catal. 37, 60.
Testaceous; antennae pale ferruginous; head and thorax ferru-
ginous; anterior wings pale testaceous; with a broad fuscous vitta
at the posterior margin, and a fuscous line between the fourth and
fifth subapical areolets ; thyridium whitish. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 16 millim. Alar expanse 29 millim.
Hab. St. John, Newfoundland.
Is it H. amicus ?
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6. H. mutatus !
Hallesus mutatus Hagen !
Fuscous, with fuscous hair; antenna? brown, annulated with lu-
teous ; feet yellowish, with black spines, base of tibias, as well as
the middle and apex, marked with fuscous; wings fuscous, finely
tuberculated, closely guttated with pale ; a semicircular stripe at
the anastomosis apically, and a discoiclal irregular spot, pale hya-
line; veins fuscous ; posterior wings brownish-hyaline. Female.
Length to tip of wings 15 rnillim. Alar expanse 29 millim.
Hcib. Labrador.
The specimen is mutilated.
Hallesus maculipennis Kolenati, from North America, Wien. Ent. Zeit.
1859, p. 18, is noticed only by name ; — it is unknown to me.
7. H. solidus!
Hallesus solidus Hagen !
Luteo-testaceous ; antenna? brownish-black, the basal article and
head luteo-fuscous ; feet luteous, with black spines ; wings luteo-
testaceous, the dorsal portion densely covered with black hair,
subhyaline, subscabrous, veins sparingly interrupted with fuscous;
with a maculose streak behind, and a marginal one, brownish-
black ; posterior wings luteo-hyaline. Female.
Length to tip of wings 16 millim. Alar expanse 30 millim.
Hab. Mexico (Deppe).
ENOICYLA RAMBUR.
Spurs arranged 1, 2, 2.
Sub-Genus (new).
1. E. areolata.
Limnephilus areolatus Walk.! Catal. 35, 55.
Black-gray, with black hair ; femora obscure ferruginous ; ante-
rior wings whitish, with black veins, many of the areoles with fus-
cous bands, the apical ones with broader bands ; margins ciliated.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 1 millim. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton).
It is a most beautiful species.
268 NEUROPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA.
2. E. intercisa!
Limnephilus intercisus Walk.! Catal. 30, 41.
Fuscous, with white hair ; antennas fuscous, annulated with lu-
teous; feet luteous, with black spines, spurs short; anterior wings
long, narrow, fuscous, subtuberculous, with white hair ; with a
discoidal, oblique, spot, the thyridium and a point at the margin
of each apical areole, whitish-hyaline; veins lurid; posterior wings
grayish-hyaline. Male.
Var. Black, antennae and feet ferruginous; thorax striped with
hoary; anterior wings fuscous, irrorate with whitish, with some ob-
long darker brown and whitish discoidal spots, and with small
white spots at the apex ; posterior wings somewhat gray. (From
the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hal. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
stou).
3. E. praeterita !
Limnephilus praeteritus Walk.! Catal. 32,44.
Black, with pale hair ; antennae stout, black ; feet blackish-
brown, with fuscous spines, spurs rather short, fuscous ; anterior
wings short, the apex elliptical ; surface subtuberculated, with a
few longer, fuscous hairs, gray-hyaline, sparingly sprinkled with
fuscous ; fuscous guttse at the anal angle, at the posterior margin
and at the pterostigma, which are confluent ; veins black ; the
margins with short cilise ; posterior wings cinereo-hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. Arctic America, Mackenzie and Slave Rivers (Richard-
son).
4. E. difficilis.
Limnephilus difficilis Walk.! Catal. 34, 50.
Testaceous, with pale hair; antennas fuscous, the two basal arti-
cles altogether and the base of the following ones testaceous ; an-
terior wings subtestaceous, closely, but indistinctly irrorated with
hyaline, spots often confluent ; veins ferruginous ; posterior wings
hyaline. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 28 millim.
Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman).
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Sub-Genus (new).
5. E. subfasciata!
Phryganea subfasciata Say. Long's Exped. II, 308, 1 ; American Entom.
Ill, pi. 44 left hand figure. Walk. Catal. 11, 14.
Yellow, with luteous hair; antenna? black, annulatecl with In-
teous, the basal article rufous beneath ; head and thorax orange
above ; feet yellow, with black spines, spurs fuscous ; anterior
wings broad, subrugulose, ochreous, the apex margined with fus-
cous, the disk with a fuscous circle, which is interrupted anteriorly
and posteriorly ; thyridium whitish ; veins ochreous ; posterior
wings luteo-hyaline. Female.
Length to tip of wings 22 millim. Alar expanse 40 millim.
Hob. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Northwest Territory (Say).
Var. Wings immaculate. (Say.)
6. E. designata !
Limnephilus designatus Walk.! Catal. 24, 19.
Fuscous, with luteous hair ; antenna? lurid ; thorax above, bivit-
tated with lurid ; abdomen luteous beneath; feet yellow, with black
spines, spurs long, luteous; anterior wings luteous, almost shining,'
with a longitudinal stripe, which is broader towards the apex, and
margined with fuscous ; veins luteous ; posterior wings luteo-hya-
line. Male. * ,
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
ffab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston) ; Arctic America, Slave and Mackenzie Rivers, Great Bear
Lake (Richardson) ; Nova Scotia (Redman).
7. E. lepida!
Enoicyla lepida Hagen!
Luteo-rufous, with luteous hair ; antennas fuscous, annulated with
luteous, the basal article luteous; head and thorax above, rufous;
feet yellowish, with black spines ; spurs yellowish; anterior wings
broader, rugulose, subnude, luteous, with a fuscous point in the
base of the third areole ; veins luteous ; posterior wings luteo-
hyaline. Male.
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 28 millim.
Hob. Pennsylvania.
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APATANIA KOLENATI.
Spurs arranged 1, 2, 4.
1. A. nigra.
Potamaria nigra Walk.! Catal. 83, 4.
Black, with black pile ; beneath, a little clothed with luteous
hair; antennae rather short; breast grayish; apices of the abdomi-
nal segments, base of the tarsi, and tibia? ferruginous ; wings
blackish, clothed with black pile. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton).
2. A. pallida !
Apatania pallida Hagen!
Black, with luteous pile; antennae black; feet pale, with black
spines, femora fuscous; anterior wings luteo-hyaline, and the veins
same color, with luteous pile and cilia; posterior wings hyaline.
Male.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 15 millim.
Hab. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
J Sub-Family SERICOSTOMIDES.
Ocelli absent; palpi pilose.
SERICOSTOMA LATREILLE.
Spurs arranged 2, 2, 4 ; maxillary palpi of the males 4-jointed,
covering the face like a mask.
1. S. americanum.
Sericostoma americanum Walk.! Catal. 85, 8.
Black, clothed with black hair; antenna? twice the length of the
body ; feet piceous ; wings blackish-fuscous, pilose ; the anterior
wings much longer than the posterior ones. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 19 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
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2. S. crassicorne.
Hydropsyche crassicornis Walk.! Catal. 113, 35.
Ferruginous, with lurid hair; antennas stout, longer than the
body, articles paler at their bases; palpi and feet testaceous; wings
cinereous, with fulvous pile; anterior wings with a hyaline spot at
the base of the apical areolets; veins fuscous. (From the descrip-
tion of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 11 uiillim. Alar expanse 20 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
NOTIDOBIA STEPHENS.
Spurs arranged 2, 2, 4 ; maxillary palpi of the males masking
the face, recurved.
1. N. borealis !
Notidobia borealis Hagen 1
Brownish-black, with luteous hair; antennae bright yellow, the
basal article and the palpi black, hairy; feet pale, whitish; wings
fusco-hyaline, the anterior wings densely covered with luteous hair,
and ciliated with luteous. Male.
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Hob. Washington; St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
2. N. pyraloides!
Notidobia pyraloides Walk.! Catal. 90, 2.
Fulvous, with fulvous hair ; antennae twice the length of the
body, testaceous, with the base fuscous, and the apices of the basal
articles testaceous ; the first article stout, testaceous ; feet testace-
ous ; wings fuscous, with fuscous pile and cilise ; veins fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot) ; North America ; Pennsylvania.
3. N. lutea !
Notidobia lutea Hagen !
Yellow, with luteous hair ; antennae subannulated with brown ;
palpi yellow, interiorly with black hair; feet yellowish; wings yel-
lowish hyaline, sparingly clothed with luteous hairs and ciliated
with luteous; posterior wings hyaline. Male and female.
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Length to tip of wings 6| millim. Alar expanse 11 millim.
Hob, St. Domingo.
BRACHYCENTRUS CURTIS.
Spurs arranged 2, 3, 3.
1. B. fuliginosus.
BracJiycentrusfuliginosus Walk.! Catal. 88, 7.
Black, with hoary hair; antennae long, ferruginous, apices of the
abdominal segments, and the legs testaceous; palpi testaceous, with
the apex blackish ; the anterior wings grayish-fuscous, veins ferru-
ginous ; posterior wings cinereous. (From the description of
Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim.
Hub. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
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2. B. incanus !
JBrachycentrus incanus Hagen !
Black; sparingly clothed with hoary hair; antennas black, feet
pale, femora black; anterior wings long, grayish-hyaline, with some
luteous spots, and sparse luteous pile ; veins gray ; posterior wings
grayish-hyaline. Female.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 24 millim.
Hub. Washington, April (Osten Sacken).
It is similar to B. subnubilus Curtis.
SILO CURTIS.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4.
1. S. californicus !
Silo californicus Hagen I
Fuscous; antennae stout, brownish-black; head and thorax black,
with yellow pile ; feet fuscous; anterior wings fuscous, with fuscous
pile, veins blackish fuscous ; some yellow, hairy streaks between
the longitudinal veins; posterior wings fuscous. Female.
Length to tip of wings 17 millim. Alar expanse 32 millim.
Hab. North California.
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2. S. griseus !
Silo griseus Hagen !
Brownish-gray, with fuscous hair; antennae brownish-gray, the
apex subannulated with lurid ; head, and thorax above, rufescent;
feet pale, the posterior ones and the spurs fuscous ; anterior wings
narrow, brownish-gray, hairy, with long cilia; posterior wings
cinereous. Male.
Length to tip of wings 6 millim. Alar expanse 11 millim.
Hob. Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken).
MORMONIA STEPHENS.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4; antennae with the basal joint long,
thick, very hirsute.
1. M. togata!
Mormonia togata Hagen !
Brownish-gray; with luteous hair; antennae pilose, pale yellow,
annulated with fuscous, the basal article long, brownish-gray,
hairy ; palpi and feet pale ; abdomen fuscous ; anterior wings nar-
row, fuscous, with luteons hair, veins fuscous, with fuscous pile;
posterior wings cinereous. Female.
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 millim.
Hob. Washington; St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
DASYSTOMA RAMBUR.
Spurs arranged 2, 2, 2.
1. D. numerosum.
Phryganea numerosa Say, Western Quart. Rep. 1823, II, p. 160, 2.
Black, with cinereous hair; antennae as long as the body, pale
fuscous, the basal article black, hairy; palpi pale fuscous; head
short, black, densely covered with cinereous hair; thorax black,
with cinereous hair ; feet pale fuscous ; abdomen black, the apices
of the segments pale rufous, lateral line rufous ; wings whitish-
brown, immaculate, veins fuscous. (From the description of
Say.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
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274 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
" This species appears in vast numbers early in May, from the
"7th to the 9th of that month, on the Ohio River. Having a
" white appearance when flying, they might be compared to flakes
" of snow in a moderate fall of that meteor." (Say.)
May it not belong to Brachycentrus? Can it be B. fuh'ginosus?
2. D. laterale.
Phryganea lateralis Say, Western Quart. Rep. 1823, II, p. 161, 3.
Black, above with cinereous hair, beneath with plumbeous hair;
antennae and mouth pale ; feet whitish ; abdomen black, with a
lateral pale stripe, and the apices of the segments pale ; appendages
white ; wings whitish, the anterior ones spotted with fuscous, a
common spot on the middle of the inner margin, and several near
the tip somewhat arranged into a band, the costal one of which is
larger ; posterior wings white, immaculate. (From the descrip-
tion of Say.)
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 18 millim.
Hab. " Shippingsport, Kentucky, Ohio River; they appeared
" in very great numbers at the banks of the Ohio on the 21st of
" May; judging from the small space of about half a mile on the
" Indiana side of the river, where I had the opportunity to see
" them, their number could have been but little inferior to that of
" P. numerosa, which occurred a few days before, but of which a
" specimen was now rarely to be seen." (Say.)
May it not belong to Brachycentrust
HYDROPTILA DALUIAS.
Spurs of the male arranged 0, 3, 4 ; female 0, 2, 4.
1. H. tenebrosa.
Hydroptila tenebrosa Walk. Catal. 134, 11.
Blackish ; antennae fuscous, the basal article larger, ovate ; feet
testaceous; wings blackish-gray, ciliated, with black veins. (From
the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Alar expanse 6 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
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2. H. albicornis !
Hydroptila albicornis Hagen !
Gray ; antennae stout, snow-white, with the middle and apex
fuscous ; palpi whitish ; head with snow-white hair, the vertex
with fuscous hair; thorax fuscous; feet whitish, the posterior ones
ciliated with white; anterior wings grayish-fuscous, ciliated with
gray, the margin and disk pointed with snow-white ; posterior
wings gray, clothed and ciliated with gray hair. Female.
Length to tip of wings 3^ millim. Alar expanse 6 millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
3. H. tarsalis !
Hydroptila tarsalis Hagen !
Gray; antennae somewhat robust, rather long, fuscous, with
gray hair ; palpi black, the apex snow-white ; head black, the
vertex white ; thorax fuscous; feet whitish, anterior tibiae, spurs,
and tarsi fuscous, the latter annulated with white ; posterior feet
with gray cilia; anterior wings fuscous, the anterior margin black,
ciliated with gray, and pointed with snow white; posterior wings
with gray hairs and cilia. Male.
Length to tip of wings 3 millim. Alar expanse 5| millim.
Hub. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
Is this the other sex of the preceding species ?
I. Maxillary palpi of both sexes with five articles.
Sub-Fam. LEPTOCERIDES.
Ocelli wanting ; antennae setaceous, long, or extremely long ;
maxillary palpi elongated, hirsute, with the last article mobile.
MOLANNA CDRTIS.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4.
1. M. inconspicua.
Leptocerus inconspicuus "Walk.! Catal. 71, 63.
Ferruginous, with pale hairs : base of the antennae testaceous ;
palpi and feet testaceous; abdomen blackish; wings gray, with
testaceous hair and pale veins. (From the description of Walker.)
276 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length to tip of wings 12 millira. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hal. Georgia (Abbot). It is allied to M. angustata.
2. M. cinerea!
Molanna cinerea Hagen!
Ferruginous, sparingly clothed with gray hair; antennae stout,
ferruginous; palpi ferruginous ; anterior feet ferruginous, the four
posterior ones gray, the tarsi with black spines; wings narrow,
gray, clothed with gray hair, the apex obsoletely marraorated with
fuscous ; posterior wings gray.
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sackeu). Can this
be M. inconspicua?
3. M. rufa !
Molanna rufa Hagen !
Rufo-fuscous, with fuscous hair; antennae and palpi rufous; feet
testaceous, the anterior ones and femora rufous ; abdomen fuscous;
wings fuscous, with rufous hair ; posterior wings fuscous ; veins
fuscous.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 18 millim.
Hob. Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken).
LEPTOCERUS LEACU.
Spurs arranged 2, 2, 2; antennae of the males extremely long.
1. L. albostictus !
Leptocerus albostictus Hagen !
Luteous ; antennae black, the basal half narrowly annulated with
white, the basal article rufous ; palpi fuscous ; head with snow-
white hair; abdomen fuscous; feet whitish, anterior tibiae and
tarsi spotted with fuscous ; anterior wings luteous, all over very
finely pointed with white, and with an anal snow-white spot ; veins
luteous ; cilia fuscous ; posterior wings gray. Male.
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hob. North America. (Collection of Hagen.)
2. L. lugens !
Leptocerus lugens Hagen !
Fuscous ; antennae black, the basal half annulated with snow-
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white ; palpi fuscous ; head with snow-white hair ; feet snow-
white, base of the femora fuscous, the four anterior tarsi spotted
with fuscous ; anterior wings rufo-fuscous, with fuscous hair, and
luteous hair intermixed, a whitish-yellow spot at the anal angle ;
veins fuscous ; cilia paler ; posterior wings gray. Male and
female.
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
3. L. dilutus !
Leptocerus dilutus Hagen !
Grayish-fuscous ; antennas fuscous, the basal half broadly annu-
lated with snow-white; palpi fuscous, with snow-white hair; head
with snow-white hair ; feet snow-white, bases of the femora a little
obscured ; abdomen fuscous ; anterior wings gray, with luteous
hair, sometimes obsoletely varied with fuscous ; veins gray ; cilia
fuscous ; with an anal yellowish spot ; posterior wings gray.
Male and female.
Length to tip of wings 7— -10 millim. Alar expanse 13 — 19
millim.
ffab. Chicago (Osten Sacken).
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4. L. niger !
Phryganca nigra Linne. — Mystacides nigra Pict. ! Phryg. 169, 10, pi. xii,
fig. 5. — Leptocerus niger Walk. ! Catal. 58, 6. (With the synon-
ymy).
Black, shining, with black hair ; antennae black, the basal half
annulated with snow-white, the basal article rufous; head black,
shining ; palpi very densely black-hirsute ; abdomen black ; feet
luteous, intermediate ones snow-white, tarsi spotted with fuscous ;
anterior wings steel-blue black, posterior wings blackish. Male.
Length to tip of wings 7i millim. Alar expanse 14 millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken) ; it is found everywhere in
Europe.
5. L. sepulchralis.
Leptocerus sepulchralis Walk. ! Catal. 70, 57.
Black, with black hair; antennas black, the base annulated with
white ; apex of the abdomen ferruginous ; feet testaceous ; wings
blackish. (From the description of Walker.)
27 S NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Hub. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton). Very closely allied to L. ater, Pictet ; is it distinct ?
6. L. variegatua !
Leptocerus variegatus Hagen !
Luteo-fuscous, with snow-white hair ; antennae luteo-fuscous, the
basal half annulated with snow-white, the basal article luteo-fus-
cous ; palpi fuscous, with gray hair; head fuscous, sparingly clothed
with white hair; feet gray, tarsi snow-white, spotted with fuscous;
anterior wings grayish-fuscous, with brown and gray hairs, spotted
with gray, especially at the apex, margin and anal angle ; veins
stout, fuscous ; posterior wings cinereous. Male.
Length to tip of wings 1 4 millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hob. Chicago (Osten Sacken).
7. L. submacula.
Leptocerus submacula Walk. ! Catal. 70, 59.
Black, with black hair; antennae extremely long; palpi hairy;
tibiae and tarsi testaceous ; wings cinereous, the anterior ones
sprinkled with white, and with three whitish spots, the one basal,
•the second discoidal, subcostal, and the third anal; veins black.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hub. St. Lawrence River. It is allied to L. venosus Ramb.;
is it perhaps, L. variegatus^
8. L. mentions.
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Leptocerus mentiens Walk. ! Catal. 71, 60.
Ferruginous, hairy; antennae black, annulated with white; palpi
hairy; tarsi banded with white; anterior wings cinereo-fuscous,
with ferruginous pubescence, veins ferruginous ; posterior wings
cinereous. (From the description of Walker. )
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim.
Hob. St. Martiu's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston). Is this L. lug ens Hagen ?
9. L. incertus.
Leptocerus incertus Walk. ! Catal. 71, 61.
Obscure testaceous, with golden hair, and more scarce black pile;
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beneath whitish; antennae extremely long, whitish; palpi hairy;
apex of the abdomen ferruginous; feet whitish; wings cinereous,
the anterior ones with golden pubescence. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 12 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
10. L. elegans.
Goera elegans Walk.! Catal. 95, 5.
Testaceous, with testaceous pile; antennae annulated with black;
wings cinereous, the anterior ones with testaceous pubescence.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hab. North America ?
11. L. indecisus.
Goera indecisa Walk. ! Catal. 95, 6.
Black, with black hair; feet ferruginous; antenna? extremely
long; palpi very hairy; wings blackish, the anterior ones with fus-
cous pubescence. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
12. L. latifascia.
Notidobia latifascia Walk ! Catal. 90, 3.
Testaceous, with testaceous hair ; antennae annulated with fus-
cous ; anterior wings with a broad, oblique, fuscous band upon the
middle ; posterior wings cinereous. (From the description of
Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim.
Hab. North America.
13. L. transveraus !
Leptocerus transversus Hagenl
Grayish-fuscous, with snow-white hair ; antennae fuscous, annu-
lated with white, the basal article fuscous ; palpi fuscous, with gray
hair ; head and thorax fuscous, with white and fuscous hair ; feet
280 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
luteo-fuscons, with snow-white pile, tarsi spotted with fuscous ; an-
terior wings fuscous, ciliated with fuscous, varied with cinereous,
and with an anal cinereous spot ; veins stout, fuscous ; posterior
wings cinereous ; abdomen luteous. Male and female.
Length to tip of wings f — 9 millim. Alar expanse 13 — 17
millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken).
Leptocerus uwarowii Kol. Wien. Ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 58, is no-
ticed only by name ; it is entirely unknown to me.
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SETODES RAMBUR.
Spurs arranged 0, 2, 2.
1. S. exquisita !
Leptocerus exquisitus Walk. ! Catal. 72, 65.
Pale yellow, with snow-white hair ; antennas luteous, the base
annulated with fuscous, the basal article yellow, with snow-white
hair ; head and thorax yellow, with snow-white hair ; palpi and
abdomen yellow ; feet snow-white ; anterior wings snow-white,
with some transverse luteous bands, the apical ones maculose, im-
perfect ; at the apex of the posterior margin are four black spots,
and some obsolete black streaks ; posterior wings snow-white.
Male and female.
Length to tip of wings 8 — 13 millim. Alar expanse 15 — 25
millim.
Hal. Georgia (Abbot) ; Washington ; St. Lawrence River,
Canada (Osten Sacken). This is an extremely beautiful species.
2. S. Candida !
Setodes Candida Hagen !
Pale yellow, with snow-white hair ; antennae fuscous, the basal
half yellowish, annulated with fuscous, the basal article yellow,
with snow-white pile ; head and thorax with snow-white hair ; palpi,
abdomen, and feet pale yellow; anterior wings snow-white, with
luteous, sparse spots all over, which are sometimes obsolete ; the
posterior margin a little marked with black, the anal angle ciliated
with black ; posterior wings snow-white. Male and female. The
female is more and deeper spotted upon the wings than the male.
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Length to tip of wings 12 — 15 millim. Alar expanse 23 — 28
millim.
Hab. Georgia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Zimmerman) ; Ohio
River ; Florida (Osten Sacken) ; South Carolina (Zimmerman).
3. S. nivea !
Setodes nivea Hagen!
Brownish-black, with snow-white hair ; antennas snow-white, the
base subannulated with fuscous, the basal article yellow, with snow-
white hair; head yellow, the disk brownish-black, with snow-white
hair ; thorax brownish-black, with snow-white hair ; palpi and feet
pale ; abdomen luteous ; anterior wings snow-white, with fuscous
veins, at the apex transversely, obsoletely clouded ; posterior wings
snow-white. Male.
Length to tip of wings 15 millim. Alar expanse 28 millim.
Hab. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
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4. S. ochracea !
Leptocerus ochraceus Curtis ! Brit. Ent. II, pi. 57 ; Steph. Illust. VI, 195,
1- — Phryganea hectica Zetterst. Ins. Lapp. 1072, 48. — Mystacides ob-
soleta Rarub.! Neuropt. 509, 4. — Leptocerus ochraceus Walk.! Catal.
57,1.
Pale ochreous; articles of the antennas subfuscous ; head, tho-
rax, abdomen, palpi, and feet, pale ochreous, ; anterior wings
ochreous, with ochreous pile ; veins a little deeper ; posterior wings
pale. Male and female.
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot) ; Europe everywhere.
I observed one specimen in the British Museum which was re-
ferred to Leptocerus (Molanna) inconspicuus.
5. S. ignita !
Leptocerus Ignitus Walk.! Catal. 72, 64.
Pale testaceous, with testaceous hair ; antennas snow-white, the
basal article testaceous ; palpi with testaceous hair ; head, thorax,
abdomen, and feet, pale ; anterior wings testaceous-yellow, with
yellow hair and cilia, a point upon the middle of the posterior mar-
gin, and another anal one, black, with black almost elevated pile ;
posterior wings pale. Male.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim.
282 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
Hal). Georgia (Abbot) ; Washington (Osten Sacken) ; Mexico
(Deppe).
6. S. pavida!
Setodes pavida Hagen !
Pale yellow, with yellow hair ; antennae pale, annulated obscure-
ly ; palpi, head, thorax, abdomen, and feet, pale yellow ; anterior
wings yellow, with yellow hair and veins, pointed with fuscous,
the points small, longitudinally placed in series ; posterior wings
pale.
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken).
The specimen is damaged.
7. S. cinerascens !
Setodes cinerascens Hagen !
Pale fuscous, with cinereous hair ; antennae (? pale) at base, with
cinereous hair ; head, thorax, and palpi, fuscous, with cinereous
hair ; feet luteous ; anterior wings cinereous, with cinereous hair,
varied with fuscous; veins with dense and long cinereous and fus-
cous hair ; cilia cinereous ; posterior wings cinereous.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim._
Nab. Washington (Osten Sacken).
The specimen is mutilated.
8. S. flaveolata!
Setodes flaveolata Hagen!
Pale yellow, with yellow hair ; antennas whitish-yellow, a little
annulated with fuscous, the basal article yellow ; palpi, head, tho-
rax, and feet, pale yellow ; anterior wings yellow-ochreous, with
yellow hair, veins, and cilia ; posterior wings cinereous. Male and
female.
Length to tip of wings 7 millini. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Eab. Washington (Osten Sacken) ; New Orleans.
9. S. resurgens.
Leptocerus resurgens Walk.! Catal. 70, 58.
Fuscous, with whitish hair ; palpi and feet fulvous, a little co-
vered with whitish hair; anterior wings fuscous, with white spots
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at the base, and at the disk and apex of the apical areoles ; pos-
terior wings cinereous. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 16 ruillim. Alar expanse 30 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton).
10. S. albida.
Lt/itocerus albidus Walk.! Catal. 71, 62.
Fuscous, with whitish hair ; base of the antennae annulated with
white ; palpi testaceous ; feet whitish ; wings whitish, with testa-
ceous veins. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany Kiver, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton).
Allied to S. resurgens; — may it not be immature ?
11. S. injusta !
Setodes injusta Hagen !
Luteous, with luteous hair; antenna? luteous, subannulated with
fuscous; palpi with luteo-fuscous pile; feet and abdomen pale lu-
teous ; anterior wings luteous, with ochreous pile and cilia, the
anterior margin at base a little obscurer; the anal angle a little
fuscous, and ciliated with fuscous hair ; posterior wings luteous,
with pale cilia. Male.
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hab. St. Lawrence River, Canada (OstenSacken); Chicago (id.).
12. S. immobilis !
Setodes immobilis Hagen !
Fuscous, with luteous hair ; antenna fuscous, the basal article
luteous; palpi with fuscous hair; head and thorax fuscous; feet
luteous; abdomen fusco-luteous ; anterior wings fuscous, with lu-
teous hair, the margin obsoletely spotted with fuscous, ciliated
with fuscous; posterior wings brown-gray, with gray cilia. Male.
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Hab. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
13. 8. micans !
Setodes micans Hagen !
Luteous, with fuscous hair; antennaa whitish-yellow, the basal
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article luteous; palpi with fuscous hair; head and abdomen luteous ;
feet whitish-yellow ; anterior wings luteo-fuscous, subnude, the disk
shining purple, anastomosis fuscous, cilia long, fuscous; posterior
wings obscure, entirely shining purplish, with fuscous cilia.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 15 millim.
Hab. Washington (Osten Sacken); Mexico (Deppe).
Is this L. incertus Walker ?
14. S. sagitta !
Setodes sagitta Hagen !
Luteous, with luteous hair ; antennae whitish, a little annulated
with fuscous; palpi with fuscous hair; head and thorax luteous;
feet whitish-yellow; anterior wings luteous, subnude, ciliated with
luteous, anastomosis and apical margin spotted with fuscous ; pos-
terior wings gray, the apex long, acute, narrow, ciliated with gray.
Male.
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim.
Hab. Florida (Osten Sackeu).
"Sub-Fam. HYDROPSYCHIDES.
Ocelli none or three ; the last article of the maxillary palpi very
long, filiform, multiarticulate.
MACRONEMA PICTET.
Spurs arranged 2, 2, 4; ocelli absent; antennee extremely long;
the second article of the maxillary palpi longer than the first, the
fifth extremely long ; intermediate feet of the females dilated.
1. M. pallidum !
Leptonema pallida Guerin, Icon. Regn. Anim. Teste. 396 ; Walk. Catal.
78, 1. — Macronema albovirens Walk.l Catal. 76, 9.
Pale testaceous, almost unclothed ; antennas pale, slightly annu-
lated with fuscous ; palpi, head, thorax, abdomen and feet pale tes-
taceous ; wings pale, anterior ones hardly clothed with testaceous
hair, veins pale. Male and female.
Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 34 millim.
Hab. Yera Cruz, Mexico (Salle) ; Cordova (Saussure); Yene-
zuela (Appun); Brazil (Classen).
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2. M. chalybeum !
Macronema chalybeum Hagen !
Blackish-fuscous ; antennae black, the basal article orange ; head
orange, each side anteriorly with an oblique fuscous line ; palpi
black; thorax rufous, the disk fuscous; feet bright sulphureous;
abdomen luteous ; anterior wings blackish-fuscous, nude, with a
steel-blue reflection, veins with golden hair; posterior wings fus-
cous. Male.
Length to tip of wings 13 millira. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hab. Cuba (Poey).
3. M. aeneum!
Macronema aeneum Hagen !
Fuscous; antennae, ? basal article fulvous; palpi fuscous; head
fulvous; thorax fulvous, each side with a fuscous stripe ; abdomen
luteous ; tibiae fulvous, all the tarsi and the posterior tibiae fuscous;
anterior wings nude, fuscous, with a brilliant brazen reflection,
veins fuscous ; posterior wings fuscous. Female.
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hab. Mexico (Salle).
May it not be the female of the preceding ? The specimen is
mutilated.
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4. M. flavum !
Macronema flavum Hagen !
Yellow, pale ; antennae yellow, slightly annulated with fuscous ;
palpi, head, thorax, feet, and abdomen pale yellow ; anterior wings
yellow, subnucle, a little clothed with golden hair, veins and cilia
yellow; posterior wings whitish-yellow, ciliated with pale. Male.
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 17 millim.
Hab. St. Louis, Missouri (Osten Sacken).
5. M. zebratum!
Macronema zebratum Hagen !
Brassy-fuscous, spotted with yellow ; antennas black, head, tho-
rax and abdomen brassy-fuscous ; palpi yellow ; feet yellow, the
anterior tibiae and base of the femora a little infuscated ; posterior
tibiae with long, yellow spines ; anterior wings subnude, yellow,
with longitudinal stripes at base, and transverse ones on the disk,
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fuscous ; the apex fuscous, with an orbicular, yellow spot ; poste-
rior wings cinereous, the anterior margin and pterostigma yellow.
Male and female.
Var. Anterior wings less spotted, the basal stripes shorter, the
disk spotted, and the apex with an incurved band, which has the
open side inwards, fuscous.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada ; Washington ; Virginia
(Osten Sacken) ; Maryland ; Niagara Falls ; immensely common
upon the foliage of trees on Goat Island (Uhler).
I possess a very small specimen from Washington, only 11 mil-
lim. long ; but it is not different. Sometimes the bands of the
wings are almost altogether confluent.
6. M. cupreum !
Macronema cuprea Walk. Catal. 76, 8.
Fuscous ; antennae fuscous, with the base luteous, the incisures
fuscous ; face, palpi and feet luteous ; head and thorax fuscous,
partly clothed with golden pile ; anterior wings luteo-fuscous, with
golden hair, before the apex clouded with black ; posterior wings
luteo-cinereous, the anterior margin luteous.
Length to tip of wings 17 — 20 millim. Alar expanse 32 — 34
millim.
Hal. Mexico (Deppe) ; Brazil.
I saw a male and female from Mexico in the Berlin Museum
(immature specimens), the wings were luteo-fuscous, the golden pile
was almost wanting or rubbed off; the other specimens from Brazil
are not different.
Does M. auripenne, Rambur, differ from this species ?
HYDROPSYCHE PICTET.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4 ; antennas rather long, slender ; ocelli
absent ; second article of the maxillary palpi long, the fifth equal
to all of the others together ; intermediate feet of the female
dilated.
1. H. scalaris !
Hydropsyche scalaris Hagen !
Black-gray, with white hair; antennre luteous, the base obliquely
striated with black, the first article with snow-white hair ; head
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grayish-fuscous, with snow-white hair ; thorax grayish-fuscous,
with a broad, medial stripe of white hair; eyes of the male larger,
approximated ; palpi luteo-fuscous ; abdomen fuscous ; feet pale
luteous ; anterior wings blackish-gray, densely flecked with white;
veins black ; posterior wings cinereous, luteous at base. Male
and female.
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hal. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken); Washington.
I possess a male from N. Red River (Kennicott) which is extremely
like this, but the eyes are larger, more approximate, the front
hardly broader than the eyes. Is it different?
2. H. morosa !
Hydropsyclie morosa Hagen !
Luteo-fuscous, with luteous hair; antennoe luteous yellow, an-
nulated with fuscous ; palpi fuscous ; head and thorax luteo-fus-
cous, with luteous hair ; feet luteous ; abdomen fuscous ; anterior
wings luteo-fuscous, densely guttated with luteous, veins luteo-
fuscous ; posterior wings luteo-cinereous. Male and female.
Length to tip of wings 10 — 13 millim. Alar expanse 19 — 25
millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada ; Washington (Osten Sac-
ken) ; N. Red River (Kennicott) ; Trenton Falls, New York
(Osten Sacken).
3. H. phalerata!
Hydropsyche phalerata Hagen 1
Fuscous, with luteous hair ; antenna? fuscous, annnlated with
luteous ; palpi and feet luteous ; head and thorax fuscous, with
luteous hair ; anterior wings fuscous, guttated with luteous, with
larger spots at the base, pterostigma and anal angle; veins fuscous;
posterior wings blackish-gray. Male and female.
A variety has the anterior wings less spotted, the female ob-
scurer.
Length to tip of wings 7 — 10 millim. Alar expanse 13 — 19
millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada ; Washington (Osten Sac-
ken) ; Pennsylvania (Zimmerman).
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4. H. alternans.
Philopotamus alternans Walk.l Catal. 104, 8.
Black, with hoary hair ; base of the antennas fulvous ; feet and
apices of the abdominal segments fulvous ; anterior wings fus-
cous, closely irrorated with hoary ; posterior wings cinereous.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millirn. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
5. H. indecisa.
Philopotamus indecisus Walk.! Catal. 104, 9.
Blackish, beneath testaceous, antennae testaceous, annulated with
fuscous ; palpi testaceous, fulvous at base ; feet testaceous ; ante-
rior wings cinereous, closely guttated with yellow. (From the
description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston); Nova Scotia (Redman).
Is this H. morosa ?
6. H. reciproca.
Philopotamus reciprocus Walk.! Catal. 104, 10.
Blackish ; antennas and feet testaceous ; palpi ferruginous, with
the base black ; anterior wings subfuscous, closely irrorated with
yellow ; posterior wings pale fuscous. (From the description of
Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 27 millim.
Hob. North America ?
It is very much like H. indecisa.
7. H. dubia.
Hydropsy che dubia Walk.! Catal. 112, 33.
Black, beneath testaceous ; antennas pale testaceous, annulated
with fuscous, the apex fuscous ; palpi ferruginous ; feet testaceous ;
anterior wings subfuscous, obsoletely irrorated ; posterior wings
subcinereous. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. North America ?
HYDROPSYCHE. 289
8. H. dubitans.
Hydropsyche dubitans Walk.! Catal. 113, 34.
Piceoas, with pale hair ; antennae testaceous, the apex black ;
pectus ferruginous ; palpi, feet and apices of the abdominal seg-
ments testaceous ; wings cinereous, the anterior ones with fuscous
hair and some paler spots, composed of yellow pile. (From the
description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. North America (Doubleday).
9. H. maculicornis.
Hydropsyche maculicornis Walk.! Catal. 113, 36.
Blackish, hairy ; antennae testaceous, annulated with fuscous ;
palpi pale ; pectus ferruginous ; feet testaceous ; anterior wings
fusco-cinereous, with obsolete irrorations ; posterior wings cine-
reous. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 15 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
10. H. robusta.
Hydropsyche robusta Walk.! Catal. 114,37.
Ferruginous, hairy ; antennae, palpi and feet testaceous ; thorax
bivittated with piceous; wings cinereous, somewhat covered with
yellow hair ; the anterior wings with pale spots, which are clearer
at the margin. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse IT millim.
Hob. North America ?
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11. H. transversa.
Hydropsyche transversa Walk.! Catal. 114,38.
Testaceous; antennae black, testaceous at base; abdomen black,
apices of the segments pale ; feet white ; wings whitish, the ante-
rior ones on the front margin and at the veins, yellow, with nume-
rous, transverse cinereous spots, part of which are confluent ; the
apex subcinereous, spotted with pale ; veins pale yellow. (From
the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Abbot).
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12. H. chlorotica !
Hydropsyche chlorotica Hagen !
Pale ochreous, with ochreous hair ; antennae ochreous at base,
annulated with fuscous, the apex fuscous; palpi fuscous; feet lute-
ous ; head and thorax luteo-fuscous, with luteous hair ; abdomen
luteous ; anterior wings ochreous, the anal angle and apical margin
ciliated with fuscous ; posterior wings cinereous. Male and fe-
male.
Length to tip of wings 10 — 12 millim. Alar expanse 19 — 23
millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada ; Chicago ; Trenton Falls
(Osten Sacken) ; 1ST. Red River (Kennicott).
13. H. depravata!
Hydropsyche depravata Hagen !
Blackish-fuscous ; antennae blackish-fuscous, the base annulated
with luteous ; palpi blackish-fuscous ; head, thorax and abdomen
fuscous ; feet brownish-luteous ; anterior wings blackish-fuscous,
obsoletely irrorated with luteous ; posterior wings blackish-gray.
Female.
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. Dalton, Georgia (Osten Sacken).
One specimen only, which is not fully unfolded.
14. H. sordida !
Hydropsyche sordida Hagen !
Blackish-fuscous ; antennae and palpi fuscous ; head and thorax
blackish-fuscous, with luteons hair ; feet luteo-fuscous, femora fus-
cous; anterior wings blackish-fuscous, with fuscous hair; posterior
wings blackish. Male and female.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 15 millim.
Hal. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken) ; Washing-
ton (id.).
15. H. incommoda!
Hydropsyche incommoda Hagen!
Luteous, with luteous hair ; antennae, palpi and feet luteous ;
head and thorax luteous, with luteous hair; anterior wings luteous,
with luteous veins, and obsoletely irrorated with brownish-gray,
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especially at the pterostigma ; posterior wings luteous ; posterior
tibiae ciliated. Male.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim.
Hob. Georgia (Collection of Hagen).
16. H. bivittata !
Hydropsyche ? bivittata Hagen !
Black, with black hair ; antennae pale whitish-yellow ; palpi
luteo-fuscous ; feet whitish, the four posterior femora, tibiae, and
the apices of the tarsi brownish-black ; wings black, the anterior
ones with black hair, and two white, transverse streaks, the apical
one interrupted.
Length to tip of wings 6 millim. Alar expanse 11 millim.
Hub. Panama. The specimen is mutilated ; — does it belong to
this genus ?
PHILOPOTAMUS LEACH.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4 ; ocelli three.
1. P. confusus.
Philopotamus confusus Walk.! Catal. 103, 7.
Black, with hoary pile ; base of the antennae annulated with tes-
taceous ; abdomen beneath, palpi and feet testaceous ; wings cine-
reous, the anterior ones obsoletely irrorated with pale. (From the
description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 12 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim.
Hob. Arctic America ; Slave and Mackepzie Rivers (Richard-
son).
2. P. distinctus.
Philopotamus distinctus Walk. ! Catal. 104, 11.
Black, with black and yellow hair ; antennae much longer than
the body ; palpi and feet testaceous ; anterior wings brownish-gray,
closely guttated with yellow. (From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 6 millim. Alar expanse 11 millim.
Hab. Trenton Falls, New York (Doubleday).
Does the apterous female of Philopotamus observed by Double-
day at the same place belong here ? See Entomol. Mag. v. 279.
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POLYCENTROPUS CURTIS.
Spurs arranged 3, 4, 4; ocelli absent; female with the interme-
diate feet dilated ; antennae thick, rather short.
1. P. validus.
Polycentropus validus Walk. ! Catal. 100, 10.
Blackish, with yellow hair, beneath ferruginous; maxillary palpi
testaceous, the first article black ; antennas stout, fulvous; feet tes-
taceous ; wings cinereous, with yellow pubescence. (From the de-
scription of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 15 millim.
Hab. United States (Doubleday).
2. P. crassicornis.
Polycentropus crassicornis Walk. ! Catal. 101, 11.
Ferruginous, densely clothed with yellow hair, beneath testa-
ceous; antennas stout, fulvous; palpi and feet testaceous; wings
cinereous, the anterior ones with yellow pubescence and irroration.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 7 — 9 millim. Alar expanse 13 — 16
millim.
Hab. Georgia (Abbot).
A variety has the anterior wings immaculate.
3. P. invarius.
Polycentropus invarius Walk. ! Catal. 101, 12.
Fulvous, with golden hair; vertex and disk of the thorax black;
antennas black, the base fulvous; feet testaceous; anterior wings
subfuscous, with ferruginous veins; posterior wings cinereous.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 millim.
Hab. Nova Scotia (Redman).
4. P. crepuscularis.
Brachycentrus crepuscularis Walk. ! Catal. 87, 6.
Black, with luteous hair; antennas testaceous, obsoletely annu-
lated with fuscous, the apex black ; apices of the abdominal seg-
ments, and the legs testaceous ; wings cinereous, the anterior ones
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with testaceous pubescence, veins fulvous. (From the description
of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 9 millim. Alar expanse 16 milliin.
Hal. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barns-
ton).
5. P. vestitus.
Polycentropus vestitus Hagen!
Luteo-fuscous, with fuscous hair; antennae yellow, a little annu-
lated with fuscous; palpi luteous; feet luteo-fuscous, the tarsi ob-
soletely annulated with yellow; head and thorax with fuscous hair;
the disk with yellow hair; anterior wings fuscous, with fuscous
hair; posterior wings black. Male.
Length to tip of wings t millim. Alar expanse 13 millim.
Hob. Washington (Osten Sacken).
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6. P. cinereus <
Polycentropus cinereus Hagen !
Fuscous, with fuscous and whitish hair; antennas fuscous, annu-
lated with white; palpi luteous, head with white hair, occiput each
side with fuscous hair ; disk of the thorax with white hair; feet luteo-
fuseous, the femora luteous; abdomen fuscous, beneath pale; an-
terior wings fuscous, with fuscous veins, and closely guttated with
white; posterior wings blackish-gray, ciliated with black. Male
and female.
Length to tip of wings 8 — 10 millim. Alar expanse 15 — 19
millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
7. P. confusus !
Polycentropus confusus Hagen !
Fuscous, with luteous hair; antennas yellow, annulated with fus-
cous; palpi fuscous, annulated with pale; disk of the head with
luteous hair; feet luteo-fuscous; abdomen fuscous; the apex in the
female triangular, acute; the anterior wings fuscous, closely gut-
tated with yellow ; posterior wings brownish-cinereous. Male and
female.
Length to tip of wings 8 — 10 millim. Alar expanse 15 — 19
millim.
Hob. Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken); Washington (id.).
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8. P. lucidus !
Polycentropus lucidus Hagen !
Luteous, subnude ; antennae luteo-fuscous, obsoletely annulated ;
palpi luteous ; head and thorax luteo-fuscous, prothorax yellow ;
feet luteous ; wings fusco-hyaline, with fuscous veins, the anterior
ones subnude, in part a little clothed with luteous pile. Male.
Length to tip of wings 7 millim. Alar expanse 13 rnilliin.
Hob. Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken) ; Pennsylvania (Zimmer-
man).
The specimen may have been defaced, and is possibly immature.
PSYCHOMYIA LATREILLE.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4 ; second, third and fourth articles of the
maxillary palpi equal, longer than the first ; wings rather acute,
narrow; ocelli absent; apex of the abdomen of the female acute,
recurved.
1. P. flavida !
Psychomyia flavida Hagen !
Yellow, with ochreous hair ; antennas whitish, with obsolete
annulations; palpi and feet whitish; head and thorax luteous;
anterior wings yellow, with dense ochreous hair and cilia ; poste-
rior wings cinereous, acute, with cinereous hair.
Length to tip of wings 5 millim. Alar expanse 9 millim.
Hob. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken) ; Washing-
ton (id.).
2. P. parva.
Bydroptila? parva Walk.! Catal. 134, 12.
Testaceous ; dorsum of the abdomen piceous ; wings whitish.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Alar expanse 6 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
The type is very much mutilated ; it certainly is not an Hydrop-
tila. Does it belong to this genus ?
TINODES — RHYACOPHILA. 295
TINODES STEPHENS.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4 ; ocelli absent, the third article of the
maxillary palpi longer than the others, almost equal to the fifth ;
apex of the abdomen of the female acute, recurved.
1. T. livida !
Tinodes ? livida Hagen ! '
Luteous, with gray hair; antennae luteous; palpi luteo-fuscous ;
feet pale, the anterior ones luteous; head and thorax luteo fuscous,
with luteous hair; anterior wings gray, with gray hair and an
anal luteous spot ; posterior wings grayish hyaline. Female.
Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 15 millim.
Nab. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
Does it belong to this genus ?
2. T. hirtipes.
Tinodes? hirtipes Curtis, Append, to Sir John Ross's Second Voyage.
Wiegmann's Archiv. Zool. II, 1, 288.
Grayish-piceous ; wings pale fuscous ; it has the halitus of a
Tinodes, but the reticulation is different ; posterior tibiae with only
two spurs.
Alar expanse 19 millim.
Hiib. Arctic America.
Is it a Tinodes ?
£ Sub-Fam. RHYACOPHILIDES.
Maxillary palpi with the last article entire, straight, shorter than
the rest.
RHYACOPHILA PICT.
Spurs arranged 3, 4, 4 ; three ocelli.
1. R. fuscula.
Neuronia fuscula Walk.! Catal. 10, 12.
Ferruginous, partly with black hair, beneath testaceous ; thorax
each side with a subfuscous spot ; feet testaceous, apex of the an-
terior tibiaa fuscous ; wings cinereous, the anterior ones irrorated
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with whitish and with many marginal guttae. (From the descrip-
tion of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim.
Hob. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
It is allied to R. vulgaris Pict.
2. R. torva !
Rhyacophila torva Hagen !
Rufo-fuscous ; antenna? and palpi rafo-fuseous ; head and thorax
brownish-black; feet testaceous ; abdomen luteous ; wings fusco-
hyaline, with fuscous veins ; anterior ones with dense luteous
guttse. Male.
Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim.
Hob, Washington ; Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken).
BERAEA STEPHENS.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4 ; palpi densely pilose ; the first article
of the antennae thick, pilose; no ocelli.
1. B. maculata !
Beraea ? maculata Hagen !
Black, with black hair ; antennae yellow, the base, middle and
apex blackish-fuscous ; palpi fuscous ; feet whitish, annulated with
black ; abdomen pale beneath ; anterior wings black, with black
hair and cilia, with two white, transverse apical lines, and the apex
pointed with white ; posterior wings black, the anterior at the
apex emarginated.
Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Alar expanse 7| millim.
Hab. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
Does it belong to this genus ?
2. B. viridiventris.
Phryganea viridiventris Say, West. Quart. Report. II, 160, 1.
Pale fuscous, with cinereous hair ; antennae pale fuscous, the
base whitish ; feet, head, and thorax beneath, white ; abdomen
green ; the anterior wings blackish, ciliated, beyond the middle
with a few whitish spots, somewhat arranged in two bauds ;
CHIMARRHA. 297
posterior wings black; intermediate tarsi dilated. (From the de-
scription of Say.)
Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Alar expanse 7 1 millim.
Hal. Cincinnati, Ohio River, May ; common (Say).
Is this not B. maculata ?
CHIMARRHA LEACH.
Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4; basal joint of the maxillary palpi short,
the others longer, equal; three ocelli.
1. C. aterrima!
Chimarrha aterrima Hagen !
Deep black, with black hair; body, antennae, palpi and feet black,
the front with hardly hoary hair ; anterior wings with black hair.
Male and female.
Length to tip of wings 6 — 8 millim. Alar expanse 11 — 15
millim.
Hob. Pennsylvania ; Washington ; Dalton, Georgia ; St. Law-
rence River, Canada (Osten Sacken).
2. C. socia!
Chimarrha socia Hagen !
Blackish-fuscous, with fuscous hair ; antennae blackish-fuscous ;
palpi and feet luteous ; head and thorax blackish-fuscous, with
luteous hair ; anterior wings blackish-fuscous, with fuscous hair,
and black cilia; posterior wings blackish-hyaline.
Length to tip of wings 6 millim. Alar expanse 11 millim.
Hob, Washington (Osten Sacken).
3. C. obscura.
Beraea obscura Walk. ! Catal. 121, 4.
Blackish, with fuscous hair ; thorax and abdomen ferruginous ;
feet testaceous ; antennae black ; wings brownish-black, ciliated.
(From the description of Walker.)
Length to tip of wings 4| millim. Alar expanse 8 millim.
Nab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn-
ston).
Does it belong to this genus ?
298 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA.
4. C. pulchra!
Chimarrha pulchra Hagen !
Brownish-black, with golden hair; antennae and palpi brownish-
black ; head and thorax orange, with golden hair ; abdomen
testaceous ; feet brownish-black, the posterior femora testaceous ;
anterior wings brownish-black, with a longitudinal, broad, golden
stripe, which is a little incurved towards the apex, at the anterior
margin reaching to the pterostigma ; posterior wings black.
Length to tip of wings 8 — 10 millim. Alar expanse 15 — 19
millim.
Hab. Cuba (Poey, Osten Sacken).
Ptilostomis leowalewskii Kol., from North America, Wien. Ent.
Zeit. 1859, p. 21 (a new genus separated from Rhyacopkila), is
noticed only by name. It is unknown to me.
LIST
OF
SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA,
FAM. I. TERMITINA.
Calotermes Hagen.
castaneus ! (Compare North Am. Neur.).
HAB. Columbia, Venezuela ; Brazil, Rio, St. Leopold ; Chile.
nodulosus ! Calotermes nodulosus HAGEN, Linnsea, XII, 61, 11 ; pi. ii,
fig. 4.
HAB. Brazil, St. Joao del Key.
rugosus ! Calotermes rugosus HAGEN, Linnsea, XII, 63, 12 ; pi. iii, fig. 4.
HAB. Brazil, Constancia near Rio.
brevis! (See North Amer. Neur.).
HAB. St. Fe de Bogota ; Brazil.
serrifer ! Calotermes serrifer HAGEN, Linnsea, XII, 72, 19 ; pi. i. fig. 6.
HAB. Santarem (Bates).
Hodotermes Hagen.
quadricollis ! Termes quadricollis RBR.! Neuropt. 304, 4. Linnsea, XII,
101,12; pi. i. fig. 10. Termes chilensis GAY! Fn. Chil. Neuropt.
pi. i. fig. 1— =3. Termes pallidus WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 504, 2.
HAB. Chili (Gay).
Termes Linne.
dims! Termes dims BURM.! Hdb. II, 766, 8. RAMB.! Neuropt. 307, 13.
WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 510, 9. HAGEN ! Peters' Reise Mozambique,
II, 83 ; pi. iv, fig. 1—8. Linnsea ! XII, 151, 14 ; pi. i. fig. 7 ; pi. ii,
figs. 16, 17 ; pi. iii, figs. 17, 37—40. T. flavicollis PERTY ! Delect.
128, pi. xxv, figs. 11, 13. T. fatalis PERTY! Delect. 127, pi. xxv,
fig. 8. Termes costatus RAMB.! Neuropt. 305, 9. Termes obscurum
BLANCHARD, Hist. Ins. pi. xlvii, fig. 1. WESTWOOD! Introd. II, 12,
fig. 58, 1. (Soldier.) Termes spinosum LATR.! Hist. Nat. XIII, 70, 8.
Dictioun. d'hist. Nat. XXII, 63. Termes dubius RAMB.! Neuropt.
309, 17.
HAB. Guiana ; Brazil, Amazon, Carcara, Rio, Congonhas, Lagoa
Santa (Burmeister).
300 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
grandis! Termes grandis RAMB.! Neuropt. 306, 10. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 519, 20. HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 157, 15 ; pi. ii, fig. 10 ; pi. iii,
fig. 18. Termes decumanus ERICHS.! Schomburgk, Reise Guiana, III,
582, 1. Termes costatus WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 518, 19. Termes
fuscum LATE.? Hist. Nat. XIII, 68, 2. Dictionn. d'hist. Nat. XXII, 60.
HAE. Cayenne ; British Guiana.
molestus ! Termes molestus BURM.! Hdb. II, 766, 9. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 512, 10. HAGEN 1 Linnsea, XII, 159, 16, pi. iii. fig. 19.
HAB. Brazil ; Amazon.
nigricans ! Termes nigricans RAMB.! Neuropt. 308, 14. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 519, 23. HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 162, 18. Termes trinervius
? HAGEN, Peters' Reise Mozamb. II, 85. Termes destructor FABE.?
Entom. Syst. II, 89, 2. Termes cephalotes RAMB.? Neuropt. 309, 18.
HAB. Brazil.
cumulans ! Termes cumulates KOLLAE ! Pohl's Reise Brazil. I, 111, fig. 9.
KOLLAE ! Brazil, laestige Insect. 13, fig. 9. HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII,
165, 19 ; pi. ii, fig. 11 ; pi. Hi, fig. 20. Termes Americanus RENGGEE?
Reise Paraguay. Termes pallidipennis BLANCHAKD? Voyage d'Or-
bigny.
HAB. Brazil, Ypanema ; Barra do Rio Negro (Natterer).
similis ! Termes similis HAGEN ! Linnaea, XII, 167, 20 ; pi. i, fig. 5 ; pi.
iii, fig. 21.
HAB. Brazil, Lagoa Santa, Congonhas (Burmeister) ; Para,
striatus ! Termes striutus HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 171, 21.
HAB. Brazil.
cingulatus ! Termes cingulatus BUEM.! Hdb. II, 767, 13. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 515, 14. HAGEN! Linnaea, XII, 187, 28; pi. i, fig. 13; pi.
iii, fig. 24.
HAB. Brazil, Porto Allegro ; British Guiana (Schomburgk).
marabitanas ! Termes marabitanas HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 191, 29 ; pi. i,
fig. 4 ; pi. iii, fig. 25.
HAB. Brazil, St. Jose de Marabitanas (Natterer).
tenebrosus ! Termes tenebrosus HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 193, 30.
HAB. Brazil, Ypanema, New Friburg, near Rio.
ater ! Termes ater HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 195, 31 ; pi. iii, fig. 26. Termes
morio WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 514, 12.
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg (Burmeister) ; Columbia.
opacus ! Termes opacus HAGEN! Linnsea, XII, 196, 32; pi. iii, fig. 27;
pi. i, fig. 19.
HAB. Brazil, Lagoa Santa, Congonhas (Burmeister) ; Para ; Cassa-
pava.
testaceus ! Hemerobius testaceus LINNE ! Syst. Nat. X, 550, 6 ; XII, 912,
8 ; XIII, 2641, 8. Termes testaceus BDRM.! Hdb. II, 767, 10. HAGEN !
Linnsea, XII, 198, 33 ; pi. ii, fig. 12 ; pi. iii, fig. 28. Termes morio
FABR. Entom. Syst. II, 90, 3. RAMB.! Neuropt. 305, 7. ERICHS.!
Reise Guiana Schomburgk. Ill, 582, 2. Termes nasutus WALK.!
Catal. Br. Mus. 506, 5. Perla fusc.a DEGEER! Mem. Ill, 567, 1 ; pi.
xxvii, figs. 4, 5. RETZIUS, 60, 205.
HAB. Surinam ; Cayenne ; British Guiana ; Venezuela, Puerto Ca-
bello ; Brazil, Para ; Chili, Valparaiso ; Santarem.
OLYNTHA. 301
morio! (See Catal. North Amer. Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela ; Brazil, Santarem (Bates).
simplicinervis ! Termes simplicinervis HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 204, 35.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem (Bates).
debilis! (See North Amer. Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil, Congonhas (Burmeister).
exiguus ! Termes exiguus HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 208, 39.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem (Bates).
trispinosus ! Termes trispinosus HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 210, 41 ; pi. i,
fig. 11.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem (Bates) Miles.
rippertii ! (See North Amer. Neuropt.)
HAB. Columbia ; Brazil, New Friburg ; Ypanema.
arenarius ! Termes arenarius HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 222, 50. Termes tes-
taceus WALK.I Catal. Br. Mus. 513, 11.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem (Bates),
albidus ! Termes albidus HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 225, 51 ; pi. iii. 34.
•HAB. Brazil, Santarem (Bates).
devastans ! Termes devastans KOLLAR ! Pohl's Reise Brasil. I, fig. 8. KOL-
LAR! Brasil. laestig. Insect. 13, fig. 8. HAGEN! Linnsea, XII, 229,
54.
HAB. Brazil, Rio.
tenuis !« (See North Amer. Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil,
marginalis! Hemerobius marginalia LINNE! Syst. Nat. X, 550, 7; XII,
912,9. Termes marginalis HAGEN ! Linnsea, XII, 234. Perla nasuta
DE GEER! Mem. Ill, 568; pi. xxvii, fig. 6, 7. RETZIUS, 60, 206.
Termes nasutum LATR. Hist. Nat. XIII, 69, 4. Dictionn. d'hist. Nat.
XXII, 61. B0RM.! Hdb. II, 764, 4. t
HAB. Surinam.
nasutus ! Termes nasutum PERTY ! Delect. 127, pi. xxv, fig. 10. HAGEN !
Linnsea, XII, 237, 59, pi. ii, fig. 14; pi. iii, fig. 1.
HAB. Brazil.
FAM. II. EMBIDINA.
Olyotlia Gray.
brasiliensis. Olyntha Brasiliensis GRAY! Griff. Anim. Kingd. XV, 347;
pi. Ixxii, fig. 2. WESTW.! Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII, 373; pi. ii, fig.
3. BOKM. Hdb. II, 770, 1. WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 532, 1.
HAB. Brazil.
ruficapilla. Olyntha ruficapilla BDRM. Hdb. II, 770, 2. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 532, 2.
HAB. Brazil, Venezuela ?
klugii. Embia Klugii RAMB. Neuropt. 313, 3. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus.
530, 3.
HAB. Brazil.
Olyntha staphilinoides WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 532, 3, from Brasil. Is
it Forficula ?
302 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
FAM. III. PSOCINA.
Tliyrsoplioms Burmeister.
speciosus! Thyrsophorus speciosus BUKM.! Hdb. II, 782, 1. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 478, 1. Thyrsophorus spinolae RBB.! Neuropt. 318, 1.
WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 479, 3.
HAB. Brazil, Para,
pennicornis! Thyrsophorus pennicornis BPRM.! Hdb. II, 782, 2. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 478, 2. Thyrsophorus ramosus WALK.! Catal. Br.
Mus. 480, 5.
HAB. Brazil, Baliia, Para,
leucotelus. Thyrsophorus leucotelus WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 479, 4.
HAB. Brazil, Para,
anticus. Thyrsophorus anticus WALK. ! Catal. Br. Mus. 480, 6.
HAB. Brazil, Para.
PSOCUS Latreille.
fuscipennis! Psocus fuscipennis BCEM.! Hdb. II, 778, 9. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 484, 8.
HAB. Brazil.
opacus ! Psocus opacus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil. ft
sticticus ! Psocus sticticus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil,
albicinctus ! Psocus albicinctus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
lepidus ! Psocus lepidus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil. ,
quadrisignatus ! Psocus quadrisignatus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
pictus ! Psocus pictus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil,
marginatus! Psocus marginatus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
FAM. IV. PERLINA.
Perla Geoffroy.
nubes. Perla nubes PICT. Perl. 174, 9 ; pi. ix, fig. 7, 8. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 145, 14.
HAB. America.
braziliensis. Perla braziliensis PICT. Perl. 216, 24; pi. xviii, fig. 3.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 151, 36.
HAB. Brazil,
intermixta. Perla intermixta WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 153, 42.
HAB. Venezuela.
luteicollis. Perla luteicollis WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 154, 46.
HAB. Venezuela.
CAPNIA. 303
repanda ! Perla repanda HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Chili.
bifasciata! Perla bifasciata PICT.! Perl. 229, 30; pi. xx, fig. 5. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 156, 51.
HAB. Columbia.
signata. Perla signata Walk.! Catal. Br. Mus. 157, 54.
HAB. Venezuela.
gayi. Perla gayi PICT. Perl. 238, 33 ; pi. x, fig. 3. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 158, 55.
HAB. Chili.
longicauda! Perla longicauda PICT. Perl. 236,34; pi. xxii, fig. 5 — 8.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 158, 57.
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
dilaticollis ! (See North Amer. Neuropt.)
HAB. Columbia.
hyalina. Perla hyalina PICT. Perl. 247, 39 ; pi. xxi, fig. 5 — 10. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 159, 61.
HAB. Brazil.
annulicauda. (See North Amer. Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil.
annularis. Perla annularis PICT. Perl. 252, 42 ; pi. xxv, fig. 3 — 5. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 160, 63.
HAB. Brazil.
debilis. Perla debilis PICT. Perl. 255, 44 ; pi. xxvi, fig. 4. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 161, 66.
HAB. Brazil.
klugii. Perla Mugii PICT. Perl. 267, 50 ; pi. xxv, fig. 1—2. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 162, 72.
HAB. Brazil.
obscura. Perla obscura PICT. Perl. 269, 51 ; pi. xxviii, fig. 1 — 4. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 163, 73.
HAB. Brazil.
polita. Perla polita Burm. Hdb. II, 879, 6. PICT. Perl. 271, 52; pi.
xxviii, fig. 5—9. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 163, 74.
HAB. Brazil.
morio! Perla morio PICT.! Perl. 272, 53; pi. xxx, fig. 1 — 5. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 163, 75.
HAB. Columbia.
fenestrata! Perla fen estrata PICT.! Perl. 281, 57; pi. xxxi, fig. 1 — 4.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 167, 85.
HAB. Columbia.
Capnia Pictet.
cancellata. Capnia cancellata PICT. Perl. 328, 4; pi. xli. Walk. Catal.
Br. Mus. 175, 4.
HAB. Brazil,
gracilis ! Capnia gracilis PICT.! Perl. 330, 5 ; pi. xlii, fig. \ — 3. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 175, 5.
HAB. Brazil.
304 LTST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
FAM. Y. EPHEMERINA.
Ephemera Linne.
colombise. Ephemera colombiae WALK. Catal. 537, 6.
HAB. Columbia.
Palingenia Burmeister.
albicans. Ephemera albicans PERCHERON, Gen. Ins. Livr. VI, Neuropt.
pi. vi. Palingenia albicans BCRM. Hdb. II, 803. PICT. Ephemer.
149, 4; vol. xiii, fig. 1—3. WALK. Catal. 548, 4.
HAB. Brazil.
dorsalis ! Palingenia dorsalis BURM. Hdb. II, 803, 3. PICTET. Epkemer.
153, 6, tab. xiii, fig. 5. WALK. Catal. 549, 5.
HAB. Brazil,
atrostoma. Ephemera atrostoma WEBER. Obs. Entom. 99, 1. PICTET.
Ephemer. 157. WALK. Catal. 550, 9.
HAB. Brazil,
albifilum. Palingenia albifilum WALK.! Catal. 554,19.
HAB. Para,
curta. Palingenia curta HAGEN. Palingenia albifilum WALK.! var. Catal.
554, 19.
HAB. Para,
latipennis. Palingenia latipennis WALK.! Catal. 554, 20.
HAB. Para,
umbrata ! Palingenia umbrata HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Amazon.
dorsigera ! Palingenia dorsigera HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Montevideo.
Baetis Leach.
albivitta. Baetis albivitta Walk. Catal. 566, 33.
HAB. Para.
Cloe Leach.
fasciata ! Cloe fasciata PICTET. Ephemer. 262, 9 ; tab. xli, fig. 4. WALK.
Catal. 575, 9.
HAB. Brazil.
Oligoneuria Pictet.
anomala ! Oligoneuria anomala PICT.! Ephemer. 291, tab. xlvi et xlvii.
HAGEN! Stett. Ent. Zeit. XVI, 269, 2. WALK. Catal. 585, 1.
HAB. Brazil.
LAIS — HETAERINA. 305
FAM. VI. ODONATA.
Tribe I. AGRIONI1VA.
Sub-Fam. I. CALOPTERYGINA.
Lais HAGEN.
globifer ! Lais globifer HAGEN ! Monogr. Calopt. 88, 28 ; tab. x, fig. 1.
SELTS ! Synops. 27, 28. WALK. Catal. 613, 1.'
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
aenea! Lais aenea SELTS! Monogr. Calopt. 91, 29; tab. x, fig. 2. SELYS!
Synops. 28, 29. WALK. Catal. 613, 2.
HAB. Para.
cuprea! Lais cuprea SELTS! Monogr. Calopt. 92, 30; SELTS! Synops. 28,
30. WALK.! Catal. 613, 3.
HAB. Brazil, Para.
hyalina ! Lais hyalina HAGEN ! Monogr. Calopt. 92, 31. SELTS ! Synops.
28, 31. WALK. Catal. 613, 4.
HAB. Brazil,
pruinosa! Lais pruinosa HAGEN! Monogr. Calopt. 93, 32; tab. x, fig. 3.
SELTS ! Synops. 28, 32. WALK. Catal. 615, 5.
HAB. Brazil.
pudica ! Lais pudica HAGEN ! Monogr. Calopt. 95, 33 ; tab. x, fig. 4.
SELTS! Synops. 29, 33. WALK. Catal. 615, 6.
HAB. Brazil, Ypanema.
Hetaerina Hagen.
simplex! Hetaerina simplex SELTS! Monogr. Calopt. 98,34; tab. x, fig.
5. SELTS! Synops. 30, 34. WALK. Catal. 616, 7.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
sanguinea ! Hetaerina sanguinea SELTS ! Monogr. Calopt. 100, 35 ; tab.
x, fig. 6. SELTS! Synops. 31, 35. WALK. Catal. 617, 8.
HAB. Para.
rosea! Hetaerina rosea SELTS! Monogr. Calopt. 102, 36; tab. x, fig. 7.
SELTS ! Synops. 31, 36. WALK. Catal. 617, 9.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes ; Chili.
caja! Libellula caja DRURT, II, 82; tab. xlv, fig. 2. Calopteri/x caja
BUKM.! Hdb. II, 826, 5. Hetaerina caja SELTS! Monogr. Calopt. 104.
37 ; tab. x, fig. 8. SELTS ! Synops. 32, 37. WALK. Catal. 618, 10.
HAB. Columbia, Venezuela, Porto Cabello (Appun).
dominula ! Hetaerina dominula HAGEN ! Monogr. Calopt. 107, 38 ; tab.
xi, fig. 1. SELTS! Synops. 33, 38. Calopteryx caja ERICHS.! Voyag.
Schomburgk, III. WALK. Catal. 619, 11.
HAB. Guiana, Surinam ; Brazil.
auripennis ! Calopteryx auripennis B0RM. ! Hdb. II, 827, 10. RAMB.
Neuropt. 225, 13. Hetaerina auripennis BELTS ! Monogr. Calopt. 109,
39 ; tab. xi, fig. 2. SELTS ! Synops. 33, 39. WALK. Catal. 619, 12.
HAB. Brazil, Bahia, Rio.
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306 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
hebe! Hetaerina hebe SELYS! Monogr. Calopt. 112, 40; tab. xi, fig. 3.
SELTS ! Synops. 34, 40. WALK. Catal. 620, 13.
HAB. Brazil,
sanguinolenta ! Hetaerina sanguinolenta HAGEN! Monogr. Calopt. 115,
41 ; tab. xi, fig. 4. SELYS ! Synops. 35, 41. WALK. Catal. 621, 14.
HAB. Brazil, Bahia.
mortua! Hetaerina mortua HAGEN! Monogr. Calopt. 117,42; tab. xi, fig.
5. SELYS ! Synops. 35, 42. WALK. Catal. 621, 15.
HAB. Guiana.
laesa! Hetaerina laesa HAGEN ! Monogr. Calopt. 119, 44. SELYS! Synops.
36, 44. WALK. Catal. 622, 17.
HAB. Surinam.
longipes ! Hetaerina longipes HAGEN! Monogr. Calopt. 121, 45; tab. xi,
fig. 7. SELYS ! Syiiops. 37, 45. WALK. Catal. 623, 18.
HAB. Brazil.
carnifex ! Hetaerina carnifex HAGEN ! Monogr. Calopt. 123, 46 ; tab. xi,
fig. 8. SELYS ! Synops. 37, 46. WALK. Catal. 624, 19.
HAB. "Brazil, New Friburg, Minas Geraes.
proxima ! Hetaerina proxima SELYS ! Monogr. Calopt. 125, 47 ; tab. xi,
fig. 9. SELYS! Synops. 38, 47. WALK. Catal. 624, 20.
HAB. Brazil, Ypanema.
cruentata! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela, Merida, Paranas de St. Urban; Surinam.
vulnerata! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Columbia, Brazil.
americana! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil.
moribunda ! Hetaerina moribunda HAGEN! Monogr. Calopt. 134, 154;
tab. xii, fig. 4. SELYS! Synops. 42, 51. WALK. Catal. 628, 24.
HAB. Cayenne ; Brazil, Para.
occisa ! Hetaerina occisa HAGEN ! Monogr. Calopt. 143, 55 ; tab. xii, fig.
6. SELYS! Synops. 44, 55. WALK. Catal. 631, 28.
HAB. Columbia, Venezuela, Porto Cabello, Laguayra, Paranas de St.
Urban.
brightwelli ! Agrion brightwelli KIKBY, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 107 ; tab,
iii, fig. 5. Calopteryx brightwelli BUKM. Hdb. II, 826, 5. Hetaerina
brightwelli SELYS ! Monogr. Calopt. 148, 57 ; tab. xii, fig. 8. SELYS !
Synops. 46, 57. WALK. Catal. 633, 30.
HAB. Brazil, Rio, New Friburg, Irisauga.
majuscula! Hetaerina majuscula SELYS! Monogr. 151, 58; tab. xiii, fig.
1. SELYS ! Synops. 47, 58. WALK. Catal. 634, 31.
HAB. Columbia ; Surinam.
Heliocliaris Selys.
amazona! Heliocharis amazona SELYS! Monogr. Calopt. 188, 1; tab. xiv,
fig. 5. SELYS! Synops. 55, 71. WALK. Catal. 642, 1.
HAB. Brazil, Ega (Bates), Amazon River,
brasiliensis ! Heliocharis brasiliertsis HAGEN ! addit. Synops. Calopt. 9,
71, bis.
HAB. Brazil, Bahia.
MEGALOPREPUS. 307
Dicterias Selys.
atrosanguinea ! Dicterias atrosanguinca SELYS! Monogr. Calopt. 191, 72;
tab. xiv, fig. 6. SELYS! Synops. 56, 72. WALK. Catal. 643, 2.
HAB. Amazon River (Bates).
procera! Dicterias procera HAGEN ! addit. Synops. Calopt. 10, 72, bis.
HAB. Amazon River, Santarem (Bates).
Ampliipteryx Selys.
agrioides! Amphipteryx agrioides SELYS! Monogr. Calopt. 241, 92. SELYS!
Synops. 66, 1. WALK. Catal. 654, 1.
HAB. Colombia.
Chalcopteryx Selys.
rutilans! Chalcopteryx rutilans SELYS! Monogr. Calopt. 251, 94; tab. ix,
fig. 7. SELYS! Synops. 68, 94. WALK. Catal. 655, 1. Rhinocypka
rutilans RAMB.! Neuropt. 233, 1.
HAB. Brazil, Para.
Thore Hagen.
gigantea! Thore gigantea SELYS! Monogr. Calopt. 254, 1. SELYS! Synops.
69, 95. WALK. Catal. 656, 2.
HAB. Colombia, Bogota.
picta ! Euphaea picta RAMB. Neuropt. 231, 4. Thore picta SELYS! Monogr.
Calopt. 256, 96. SELYS! Synops. 70, 96. WALK. Catal. 656, 3.
HAB. Cayenne ; Para.
saundersii ! Thore saundersii SELYS ! Monogr. Calopt. 257, 97. SELYS !
Synops. 70, 97. WALK. Catal. 657, 4.
HAB. Amazon River; Para.
fasciata ! Thore fasciata HAGEN! Monogr. Calopt. 259, 98 ; tab. is, fig. 8.
SELYS! Synops. 70, 98. WALK. Catal. 657, 5.
HAB. Colombia, Venezuela, Porto Cabello (Appun).
hyalina! Thore hyalina SELYS! Monogr. Calopt. 261, 99. SELYS! Synops.
71, 99. WALK. Catal. 658, 8.
HAB. Babia.
fastigiata! Thore fastigiata SELYS! addit. Synops. 16, 99, bis.
HAB. Colombia, Bogota.
Cora Selys.
cyane ! Cora cyane SELYS ! Monogr. Calopt. 263, 100. SELYS ! Synops.
71, 100. WALK. Catal. 658, 7.
HAB. Venezuela, Porto Cabello (Appun).
Sub-Fam. II. AGRIONINA.
Megaloprepus Rambur.
caerulatus! (See the North American Neuropt.) Var. bolivar SELYS.
HAB. Colombia, Bogota.
308 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
Microstigma Rambur.
anomalum ! Microstigma anomalum RBR. Neuropt. 289, 1. Microstigma
proximum RBR. Neuropt. 289, 2.
HAB. Amazon River, Santarem, Para (Bates), Cayenne,
rotundatum ! Microstigma rotundatum SELYS ! Var. M. exustum SELTS !
Var. M. lunatum SELYS !
HAB. Peru ; Amazon River ; Para (Bates),
maculatum ! Microstigma maculatum HAGEN !
HAB. Cayenne ; Amazon River, Santarem (Bates) ; Essequibo.
Pseudostigma Selys.
accedens! Pseudostigma accedens SELYS! (See North Amer. Neuropt.)
HAB. Colombia.
Mecistogaster Rambur.
ornatus ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela, Caraccas ; Surinam ; Lima,
astictus ! Mecistogaster astictus HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
linearis ! Agrion linearis FABR. Entom. Syst. II, 388, 5. Mecistogaster
filigerus RBR. ! Neuropt. 287, 10, mas. Mecistogaster signatus RBR.
Neuropt. 286, 9, fern. Mecistogaster flavistigma RAMB. Neuropt. 287,
11 ? fern.
HAB. Guiana; Surinam; Amazon River; Para; Santarem, Colombia.
lucretia! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil, Amazon River,
marchali \ Mecistogaster marchali RBR. Neuropt. 283, 2. Mecistogaster
filum RAMB. I Neuropt. 284, 3. Mecistogaster pedicellatus RAMBR.!
Neuropt. 284, 5.
HAB. Guiana; Surinam; Amazon River; Para.
Lestes Leach.
grandis! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Colombia.
forficula! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil,
undulata! Lestes undulata SAY, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 35. Lestes
vittata HAGEN 1 Revue des Odonat. d'Europe, 331.
HAB. Montevideo ; Buenos Ayres ; Valdivia.
picta ! Lestes picta HAGEN.
HAB. Brazil.
tricolor! Lestes tricolor ERICHS.! Voyag. Schomburgk, III.
HAB. Guiana ; Bahia ; Pernambuco.
contorta! Lestes contorta HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
striata. Lestes striata SELYS.
HAB. Venezuela, Cayenne (not seen by me),
minuta. Lestes minuta SELYS.
HAB. Brazil (not seen by me).
NEONEURA. 309
Hyponeura SELYS.
funckii ! ffi/poneura funckii SELYS!
HAB. Colombia.
Euclea Selys.
terminalis. Euclea terminalis SELYS.
HAB. Amazon River (not seen by me).
Podagrion Selys.
oscillans. Podagrion oscillans SELYS.
HAB. Bogota (not seen by me),
megalopus. Podagrion megalopus SELYS.
HAB. Amazon River (not seen by me),
macropxis. Podagrion macropus SELYS.
HAB. Venezuela, Merida (not seen by me),
flavovittatum ! Podagrion flavovittatum SELYS!
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
venale ! Podagrion venale HAGEN !
HAB. Colombia.
Leptogaster Selys.
ovatus. Leptogaster ovatus SELYS.
HAB. Bahia (not seen by me),
aurantiacus ! Leptogaster aurantiacus HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
cinnamomeus ! Leptogaster cinnamomeus HAGEN I
HAB. Bahia.
sordidus. Leptogaster sordidus SELYS.
HAB. Santarem (not seen by me),
angustus. Leptogaster angustus SELYS.
HAB. Santarem (not seen by me).
Neoneura Selya.
ciliaris ! Neoneura ciliaris SELYS !
HAB. Brazil ; perhaps N. ancilla.
bilinearis ! Neoneura bilinearis SELYS !
HAB. Para,
rubriventris ! Neoneura rubriventris SELYS !
HAB. Para,
fragilis ! Agrion fragile HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
Sub-gen. Notosticta DE SELYS.
melanostigma ! Neoneura melanostigma HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela.
310 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
Protoneura Selys.
sancta! Protoneura sancta HAGEN !
HAB. Columbia.
tenuis. Protoneura tennis SELYS.
HAB. Para.
Agrioil Fabricins.
Stab-gen. Ischnura CHARPENTIER.
gracile ! Agrion gracile RAMB.! Neuropt. 260, 4.
HAB. Brazil, Venezuela.
truncatum. Agrion truncatum SELTS.
HAB. Minas Geraes, Brazil.
chelifer. Agrion chelifer SELYS.
HAB. Minas Gerae's, Brazil,
tuberculatum ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Cayenne.
versutum ! Agrion versutum HAGEN !
HAB. Chili.
simile ! Agrion simile SELYS !
HAB. Venezuela, Merida.
rusticum ! Agrion rusticum HAGEN !
HAB. Bahia.
debile ! Agrion debile HAGEN !
HAB. Rio, Brazil.
Cinctum ! Agrion cinctum HAGEN !
HAB. Quillota, Chili.
floridum ! Agrion floridurn HAGEN !
HAB. Lima,
hastatum ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Merida.
capreolus ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Brazil.
Sub-genus (new).
macilentum, Agrion macilentum RBK. Neuropt. 259, 4.
HAB. Brazil.
bicorne. Agrion bicorne SEIYS.
HAB. Para,
bitaeniatum. Agrion bitaeniatum SELYS.
HAB. Brazil,
longissimum ! Agrion longissimum SELTS.
HAB. Brazil.
Sub-genus (new).
briseis ! Agrion briseis HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
elongatum. Agrion elongatum SELYS.
HAB. Brazil.
PYRRHOSOMA.
porrectum ! Agrion porrectum HAGEN.
HAB. Brazil.
glaucopis ! Agrion glaucopis HAGEN !
HAB. Bahia.
iris ! Agrion iris HAGEN I
HAB. Bahia.
thetis ! Agrion thetis HAGEN !
HAB. Bahia.
andromache ! Agrion andromache HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
macrurum ! Agrion macrurum BURM.! Hdb. II, 819, 4.
HAB. Brazil.
Sub-gen. Pyrrhosoma CHAKPENTIER.
flavipes. Agrion flavipes SELYS.
HAB. Brazil,
corallinum. Agrion corallinum SELYS.
HAB. Brazil.
coccineum. Agrion coccineum SELYS.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
erythrinum. Agrion erythrinum SELYS.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
rubellum. Agrinn rubellum SELYS.
HAB. Brazil.
rubidum. Agrion rubidum RAMB. Neuropt. 261, 8.
HAB. Buenos Ayres.
haematinum ! Agrion haematinum SELYS !
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
terminale. Agrion terminale SELYS.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
vulneratum ! (See N. American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Guiana.
sulphuratum ! Agrion sulphuratum HAGEN !
HAB. Baliia.
croceum ! Agrion croceum BURM.! Hdb. II, 819, 6.
HAB. Surinam.
rubens. Agrion rubens SELYS.
HAB. Brazil,
basale. Agrion basale SELYS.
HAB. Brazil,
angustipenne. Agrion angustipenne SELYS.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
dispar ! Agrion dispar HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
filiola ! Agrion filiola PERTY, Delect. Anim. 125 ; tab. xxv, fig. 4.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes, Pernambuco, Bahia.
pavidutn ! Agrion pavidum HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
rufovittatum. Agrion rufovittatum BLANCHAED, Voyag. d'Orbigny.
HAB. Bolivia.
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312 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
Sub-gen. Agrion CHARPENTIER.
dorsale ! Agrion dorsale BDRM.! Hdb. II, 819, 5.
HAB. Brazil.
modestum. Agrion modestum SELYS.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
sordidum ! Agrion sordidum HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
fissum. Agrion fissum SELYS.
HAB. Columbia.
impurum. Argya impura RAMB. Neuropt. 255, 1.
HAB. Para,
claussenii ! Agrion claussenii SELYS !
HAB. Brazil,
oculatum ! Agrion oculatum HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela; Pernambuco.
iufumatum ! Agrion infumatum SELYS I
HAB. Para.
serva ! Agrion servo, HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
insipidum ! Agrion insipidum HAGEN !
HAB. Guiana,
iucultum ! Agrion incultum HAGEN !
HAB. Lima.
torvum ! Agrion torvum HAGEN !
HAB. Quillota.
nuptum ! Agrion nuptum HAGEN !
HAB. Quillota.
cupreum ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Venezuela.
Tribe II. AESCHXINA.
Sub-Fam. III. GOMPHINA.
Gomphlis Leach.
crotalinus! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil.
paludosus ! Epigomphus paludosus HAGEN ! Gomphin. 85, 22.
HAB. Brazil.
molestus ! Hemigomphus molestus HAGEN ! Gomphin. 183, 65.
HAB. Chili.
Gomphoides Selys.
gracilis ! Progomphus gracilis HAGEN ! Gomphin. 189, 67.
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
complicata! Progomphus complicata SELYS! Gomphin. 198, 68.
HAB. Brazil, Bahia.
costalis ! Progomphus costalis HAGEN I Gomph. 200, 69.
HAB. Brazil.
ICTINTJS — CORDULEGASTER — PET ALIA. 313
intricata ! ProgompJius intricatus HAGEN 1 Gompliin. 421, 68, bis.
HAB. Amazon.
iufumata ! Diastatomma infumatum RAMB.! Neuropt. ,4. Gomphoides
infumata SELYS ! Gompliin. 210, 73.
HAB. Brazil,
fuliginosa ! Gomphoides fuliginosa HAGEN ! GompMn. 211, 74.
HAB. British Guiana, Essequibo.
audax ! Gomphoides audax HAGEN ! Gompliin. 213, 75.
HAB. Brazil,
diphylla ! Cyclophylla diphylla SELYS ! Gomphin. 217, 77.
HAB. Brazil,
gladiata ! Cyclophylla gladiata HAGEN ! Gomphin. 219, 78.
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
signata ! Cyclophylla signata HAGEN ! Gomphin. 220, 79.
HAB. Brazil, Venezuela.
sordida ! Cyclophylla sordida SELYS ! Gomphin. 223, 80.
HAB. Para.
brevijJes ! Aphylla brevipes SELYS ! Gomphin. 227, 82.
HAB. Para.
producta ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. British Guiana ; Surinam ; Brazil, Bahia.
dentata ! Aphylla dentata SELYS ! addit. Synops. 21, 81, bis.
HAB. Amazon (Bates),
campanulata ! Diastatomma campanulata J$URU.\ Hdb. II, ,4. Conophora
campanulata SELYS 1 Gomphin. 234, 84.
HAB. Brazil.
angustipennis ! Diaphlebia angustipennis SELYS! Gomphin. 237, 85.
HAB. Amazon, Para,
brevistylus ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Colombia.
Ictinvis Rambur.
latro ! Ictinus latro ERICHS. ! Schomburgk, Reise Guiana, III. SELYS !
Gomphin. 294, 102.
HAB. British Guiana.
Cordulegaster Leach.
diastatops ! Thecaphora diastatops SELYS ! Gomphin. 320, 105.
HAB. Colombia.
Petalia Hagen.
punctata! Petalia punctata HAGEN! Gomphin. 353, 117.
HAB. Chili, Ouchacay.
stictica! Phyllopetalia stictica HAGEN! Gomphin. 357, 118.
HAB. Chili, Valdivia.
apicalis ! Phyllopetalia apicalis SELYS! Gomphin. 359, 119.
HAB. Chili, Valdivia.
314 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
Plienes Rambur.
raptor! Phenes raptor RAMB.! Neuropt. 176,1. SELYS ! Gomphin. 377,
123.
HAB. Chili, Valparaiso.
Sub-Fam. IV. AESCHNINA.
An ax Leach.
amazili ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela, Brazil, Peruambuco.
Aeschna Fabricius.
variegata. Aeschna variegata FABR. Entom. Syst. II, 384, 2,
HAB. Terra del Fuego (Banks).
COStalis! Aeschna costalis BFRM.! Hdb. II, 837, 3. Gynacantha ferox
ERICHS.! Schomburgk. Guiana, III.
HAB. Guiana; Balaia.
luteipennis ! Aeschna luteipennis BURM.! Hdb. II, 837, 4.
HAB. Brazil ; St. Leopoldo.
reticulata ! Aeschna reticulata BURM.! Hdb. II, 837, 5.
HAB. Brazil ; Venezuela.
virens ! Aeschna virens RBR.! Neuropt. 193, 3. (See North American
Neuroptera. )
HAB. St. Cruz de Bolivia; Venezuela.
marchali. Aeschna marchali RAMB. Neuropt. 203, 14.
HAB. Columbia,
diffinis ! Aeschna diffinis RBR. Neuropt. 203, 15.
HAB. Chili.
bonariensis ! Aeschna Bonariensis RBR. Neuropt. 204, 16.
HAB. Buenos Ayres ; St. Leopoldo.
COUfusa. Aeschna confusa RAMB. Neuropt. 205, 17.
HAB. Buenos Ayres.
angusta ! Aeschna angusta HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil. (?)
jucunda! Aeschna jucunda HAGEN!
HAB. Montevideo, New Friburg ; Venezuela.
prasina ! Aeschna prasina HAGEN !
HAB. Pernambuco.
configurata ! Aeschna configurata HAGEN !
HAB. Valparaiso.
depravata ! Aeschna depravata HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil ; New Friburg.
lobata I Aeschna lobata HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil. New Friburg.
brevifrons ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Valparaiso.
rufina ! Aeschna rufina HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Minas Gerae's.
GYNACANTHA — CORDULIA — PANTALA. 315
faunaria! Aeschna faunaria HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Rio.
Gynacantha Rambur.
gracilis ! Aeschna gracilis BuRM.I Hdb. 11,837.6. Gynacantha nervosa
RAMB. Neuropt. 213, 7.
HAB. Brazil, St. Cruz de Bolivia, Surinam, Pernambuco, Rio.
trifida ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil.
septima. (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil.
lanceolata ! Gynacantha lanceolata HAGEN.
HAB. Pernambuco.
elata! Gynacantha elata HAGEN!
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
obscuripennis ! Aeschna obscuripennis BLANCHAKD, Voyag. d'Orbigny.
HAB. Bolivia ; Venezuela.
tennis ! Gynacantha tennis HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
COnica ! Gynacantha conica HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela, Surinam.
Tribe III.
Sub-Fam. V. CORDULINA.
Cordulia Leach.
valga ! Cordulia valga HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
forcipula ! Cordulia forcipula HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Mus. Berlin.
rustica ! Cordulia rustica HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Mus. Berlin.
setifera ! Cordulia setifera HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Mus. Berol.
chilensis ! Cordulia chilensis HAGEN !
HAB. Chili ; Brazil, Salto Grande.
tomentosa. Libellula tomentosa FABB. Entom. Syst. II, 381, 34.
HAB. America.
villosa. Cordulia villosa RBK. Neuropt. 144, 1.
HAB. Chili.
Sub-Fam. VI. LIBELLULINA.
Paiitala Hagen.
flavescens! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela ; Surinam ; Brazil.
316 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
Tramea Hagen.
basalis ! LibeUula basalis BURM. Hdb. II, 852, 25.
HAB. Brazil.
binotata ! LibeUula binotata RBR.! Neuropt. 36, 7.
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
cophysa ! LibeUula cophysa KOLLAR.
HAB. Brazil.
marcella ! Libdlula marcella SELYS.
HAB. Brazil.
argo ! Tramea argo HAGEN !
HAB. Rio, Brazil.
Libel In I a Linne.
appendiculata ! LibeUula appendiculata SELYS !
HAB. Merida, Venezuela.
umbrata ! (See North. American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela, Porto Cabello ; Guiana ; Surinam ; Essequibo ;
Brazil, Bahia, Rio ; Buenos Ayres. Everywhere common.
cyanea. LibeUula cyanea FABR. Entom. Syst. II, 381, 36.
HAB. America.
It is a species unknown to me ; perhaps L. quadrupla ?, but the " ab-
domen" is said to be "cylindrical."
Sub-gen. Orthemis HAGEN.
discolor ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela, Porto Cabello ; Guiana ; Surinam ; Chili ; Ecuador,
Guayaquil ; Brazil, Bahia, Pernarnbuco, Minas Geraes, Rio. Ex-
tremely common.
Lepthemis Hagen.
vesiculosa ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Guiana ; Brazil, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio.
haematogastra ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Surinam ; Brazil, Pernambuco.
verbenata ! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela, Porto Cabello ; Surinam ; Brazil,
picta ! Lepthemis picta HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
cardinalis ! LibeUula cardinalis ERICHS. ! Schomburgk, Voyag. Guiana,
III, 583.
HAB. Guiana, Essequibo.
attenuata! LibeUula attenuata ERICHS. ! Schomburgk, Voyag. Guiana, III,
583.
HAB. Guiana; Brazil,
extensa ! Lepthemis extensa HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
cultriformis ! Lepthemis cultriformis HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
DYTHEMIS — ERYTHEMIS. 317
Dj tliemis Hagen.
pleurosticta ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Brazil,
tenuis ! Dythemis tennis HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
infamis ! Dythemis in/amis HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
marmorata ! Dythemis marmorata HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
hemichlora! Libellula hemichlora BTJRM.! Hdb. II, 849, 4.
HAB. Venezuela, Porto Cabello ; Brazil, Bahia.
tessellata! Libellula tessellata BURM.! Hdb. II, 849, 5.
HAB. Brazil.
sterilis ! Dythemis sterilis HAGEN ! Libellula tessellata RAMB.! Neuropt.
89, 82.
HAB. Venezuela ; Brazil, Pernambuco, Rio ; Surinam ; Lima ; Buenos
Ayres.
lepida ! Dythemis lepida HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
gerula ! Dythemis gerula HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
liriope ! Dythemis liriope HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
apicalis ! Dythemis apicalis HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Rio ; Surinam.
cydippe ! Dythemis cydippe HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Rio.
typographa! Dythemis typographa!
HAB. Chili.
icterica ! Dythemis icterica HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Surinam.
phryne. Libellula phryne PEKTT, Delectus Anim. 125 ; tab. xsv, fig. 3.
HAB. Brazil, Piauhy.
columba ! Dythemis columba HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela.
tabida ! Dythemis tabida HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
musiva ! Dythemis musiva HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Rio, Minas Geraes.
catenata ! Dythemis catenata HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Minas Gerae's.
rapax ! Dythemis rapax HAGEN.
HAB. Venezuela.
nubecula! Dythemis nubecula RBR.! Neuropt. 122, 129.
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
Erytliemis Hagen.
furcata ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Brazil, Bahia.
318 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUEOPTERA.
longipes ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAD. Brazil, Rio, Minas Geraes.
bicolor ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Surinam; Guiana; Brazil,
peruviana. Libellula peruviana RBR. Neuropt. 81, 69.
HAB. Peru. (Perhaps E. bicolor.)
lavata ! En/themis lavata HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela.
rubriventris ! Libellula rubriventris BLANCHAED, Voyag. d'Orbigny.
HAB. Corrientes. (Is it of this genus ?)
Mesotliemis Hagen.
gilva ! Mesothemis gilva HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela.
annulata ! Libellula annulata PALIS. DE BEAITV. Ins. Neur. 58, tab. iii,
fig. 3. RAMBUR! Neuropt. 78, 65 (partly).
HAB. Brazil.
plebeja ! Libellula plebeja RAMB. Neuropt. 107, 106.
HAB. Chili; Guillota.
connata ! Libellula connata Br/RM.I Hbd. II, 855, 44.
HAB. Valparaiso; Guillota.
communis. Libellula communis RBR. Neuropt. 93, 88.
HAB. Chili. (Is it of this genus ?)
distinguenda. Libellula distinguenda RAMB. Neuropt. 81, 68. Libellula
incompta RAMB. Neuropt. 119, 124 (fern.).
HAB. Cayenne,
abbreviata. Libellula abbreviata RAMB. Neuropt. 119, 123.
HAB. Cayenne. (Is it of this genus ?)
Diplax Charpentier.
ochracea! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Venezuela, Porto Cabello; Guiana; Surinam; Brazil; Bahia.
minuscula ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Brazil.
credula ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Brazil, Minas Geraes.
abjecta ! (See North American Neuroptera.)
HAB. Venezuela, Brazil.
obesa ! Diplax obesa HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
unimaculata ! Libellula unimaculata DE GEEK, Mem. Ill, 558, 4, tab.
xxvi, fig. 5. B0RM. Hdb. II, 855, 43.
HAB. Surinam, Guiana ; Brazil, Pernambuco.
famula ! Libellula famula EKICHS.! Schomburgk, Voyag. Guian. Ill, 584.
HAB. Guiana.
fuscofasciata. Libellula fuscofasciata BLANCHARD, Voyag. d'Orbigny.
HAB. Corrientes. (Is it of this genus ?)
fusca! Libellula fusca RBR.! Neuropt. 78, 64.
HAB. Cayenne; Brazil.
PERITHEMIS. 319
apollina ! Libellula apollina DE SELYS !
HAB. Brazil,
catharina ! Libellula catharina DE SELYS 1
HAB. Brazil.
iudigna ! Diplax indigna HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
Juliana ! Libellula Juliana DE SELYS !
HAB. Brazil.
postica ! Diplax postica HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
fausta ! Libellula fausta DE SELYS !
HAB. Brazil,
faustina ! Libellula faustina DE SELYS.
HAB. Brazil,
contusa ! Libellula contusa HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
latimacula ! Libellula latimacula DE SELYS !
HAB. Brazil.
sobrina. Libellula sobrina RBR.! Neuropt. 114, 116.
HAB. Brazil.
effrenata ! Libellula effrenata HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil,
familiaris ! Diplax familiaris HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
agricola ! Diplax agricola HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
luciana ! Libellula luciana DE SELYS 1
HAB. Brazil.
flavilatera ! Diplax flavilatera HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
bilineata ! Libellula bilineata HAGEN I
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
venosa! Libellula venosa BURM.! Hdb. II, 848, 1.
HAB. Brazil, Baliia.
oscularis ! Diplax oscularis HAGEN!
HAB. Brazil.
cyanifrons ! Libellula cyanifrons HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
pulla! Libellula pulla BURM.! Hdb. II, 855, 41.
HAB. Surinam.
nigricans ! Libellula nigricans RAMB. Neuropt. 97, 95.
HAB. Buenos Ayres.
vilis. Libellula vilis RBR. Neuropt. 98, 96.
HAB. Buenos Ayres.
Peritliemis Hagen.
domitia! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela ; Brazil, Bahia, St. Leopoldo.
lais ! Libellula lais PERTY, Delect. Anim. 125, tab. xxv.
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
320 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
thais! Per ithemisthais
HAB. Amazon River.
Cloe ! Perithemis doe HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
bella ! Perithemis bella HAGEN !
HAB. Para.
Nannopliya Rambur.
semiaurea ! Libellula semiaurea Berlin Museum.
HAB. Para.
prodita ! Libellula prodita HAGEN.
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
lira c is Rambur.
imbuta! Libellula imbuta BURM.! Hdb. II, 850, 9. Uracis quadra RBR.!
Neuropt. 31, tab. ii. fig. 5.
HAB. Surinam ; Brazil, Bahia.
fastigiata! Libellula fastigiata BURM.! Hdb. II, 850, 10.
HAB. Baliia.
irrorata ! Uracis irrorata HAGEN !
HAB. Baliia.
ovata ! Uracis ovata HAGEN !
HAB. Bahia.
Sub-gen, (new).
guttata ! Libellula guttata ERICHS. ! Schomburgk, Voyag. Guiana, III, 584.
HAB. Guiana.
infumata ! Libellula infumata RBR. Neuropt. 74, 59.
HAB. Brazil.
amphithea ! Libellula amphithea DE SELTS.
HAB. Brazil.
clymene ! Libellula clymene HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
Palpopleura Rambur.
fasciata ! Libellula fasciata LINNS', Syst. Nat. II, 903, 12. FABR. Entom.
Syst. II, 378, 20. BURM. Hdb. II, 854, 37. RAMBUR, Neuropt. 134,
8 (partly).
HAB. Brazil ; Surinam.
americana ! Libellula americana LINNE", Syst. Nat. II, 904, 16. FABR.
Eutom. Syst. II, 378, 20. DEGEER, Mem. Ill, 559, 7; tab. xxvi, fig.
7. SEBA, Thesaur. tab. Lxxviii, fig. 11 — 12.
HAB. Brazil.
circumcincta ! Palpopleura circumcincta HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil.
DIASTATOPS — CHAITLIODES — CORYDALIS — RAPHIDIA. 321
Diastatops Rambur.
dimidiata ! Libellula dimidiata LINNE, Syst. Nat. II, 908, 14. DEGEER,
Memoir. Ill, 558 ; tab. xxvi, fig. 6. BURM. Hdb, II, 854, 36. RAM-
BUR, Neuropt. 129, 1. ERICHS. Voy. Schoniburgk, III, 584.
HAB. Surinam ; Essequibo, Guiana.
tincta ! Diastatops tincta RAMB. Neuropt. 135, 1. ERICHS. Voy. Schorn-
burgk, III, 584.
HAB. Brazil ; St. Louis de Maranhon ; Guiana.
pullata ! Libellula pullata BURM.! Hdb. II, 854, 34. RAMB. Neuropt. 136,
2 ; tab. iii, fig. 4.
HAB. Brazil ; Pernambuco ; Peru ; Mosos.
Obscura ! Libellula obscura FABR. Entorn. Syst. 377, 15. BURM.! Hdb.
II, 584, 35. RAMB. Neuropt. 137, 3.
HAB. Brazil.
FAM. VII. SIALIXA.
Chauliodes Latreille.
ckilensis ! Chauliodes chilensis HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Valparaiso, Valdivia.
Corydalis*Latreille.
armata! Corydalis armatus HAGEN. Corydalis cornuta RAMB.! Neuropt.
440, 1. WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 208, 1.
HAB. Columbia, Venezuela.
affinis ! Corydalis affinis BURM.! Hdb. II, 951, 2. Corydalis cephalotes
RAMB.! Neuropt. 441, 2. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 208, 2.
HAB. Brazil, New Friburg.
armigera ! Corydalis armigera HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
vetula ! Corydalis vetula HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
ancllla ! Corydalis ancilla HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Paraguay.
nubila ! Corydalis nublla ERICHS.! Schoniburgk, Reise Guiana, III.
HAB. British Guiana ; Venezuela.
hieroglyphica ! Neuromus hieroglyphicus RBR.! Neuropt. 442, 2. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 206, 12.
HAB. Cayenne ; Venezuela ; Brazil ; Buenos Ayres.
livida! Corydalis livida HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
illota ! Corydalis illota HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
(Rapliidia Linne.)
R. varia WALKER and the species described by Dr. Fischer, belong to
Mantispa,
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322 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NETJROPTERA.
FAM. YIII. HEMEROBIXA.
IffenaeroMiis Linne.
lentus ! Hemerobius lentus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil,
signatus ! Hemerobius signatus HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Chili.
Mailtispa Illiger.
semihyalina ! Mantispa semihyalina SERVILLE, Eneycl. Metli. X, 270.
RAMB. Neuropt. 434, 7; pi. x, fig. 5. WESTWOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond. ser. 2, I, 253, 1. Walk.! Catal. Br. Mus. 214, 1. Mantispa
chalybea EKICHS.! Germar Zeitschr. I, 160, 1. Mantispa grandis
B0RM. Hdb. II, 967, 4.
HAB. Brazil, Surinam.
ambusta. Mantispa ambusta ERICHS. Germar Zeitschr. I, 162, 4. WEST-
WOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 254, 4. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 215, 4.
HAB. Montevideo.
irrorata ! Mantispa irrorata ERICHS.! Germar Zeitschr. 1, 162, 5. WEST-
WOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 254, 5. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 215, 5. Raphidia riedeliana FISCHER, Bullet. Moscow, VII,
329 ; tab. vii, fig. 1.
HAB. Brazil.
decorata ! Mantispa decorata ERICHS.! Germar Zeitschr. I, 163, 6; pi. 2,
fig. 5. WESTWOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 254, 6. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 215, 6.
HAB. Brazil.
prolixa! Mantispa prolixa ERICHS.! Germar Zeitschr. I, 163, 7. WEST-
WOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 254, 6.
HAB. Brazil.
costalis. Mantispa costalis ERICHS. Germar Zeitschr. I, 164, 9. WEST-
WOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 254, 9. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 216, 9.
HAB. Brazil.
flaveola! Mantispa flavcola ERICHS. Germar Zeitschr. I, 168, 13. WEST-
WOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 254, 13. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 216, 13.
HAB. Para.
gracilis! Mantispa gracilis ERICHS.! Germar Zeitschr. I, 169, IS. WEST-
WOOD, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 255, 18. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 219, 18.
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
viridula ! Mantispa viridula ERICHS.! Germar Zeitschr. I, 170, 19. WEST-
WOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, I, 255, 19. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 219, 19. Raphidia margaritacea FISCHER ? Bullet. Moscow, VII,
330 ; tab. vii, fig. 1.
HAB. Brazil.
TRICHOSCELIS — CHRYSOPA. 323
flavomaculata. Mantispa flaromaculata LATR. Gen. Crust. Ill, 94. ERICHS.
Germar Zeitschr. 173, 24. WESTWOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser.
2, 255, 28. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 220, 23. Mantispa liliputana OLIV.
Encycl. Metli. VII, 640, 3. STOLL, Spectr. VII, pi. ii, fig. 7.
HAB. Surinam.
irldipennis. Mantispa iridipennis GU£RIN, Icon. Regn. Anim. Ins. 392,
Mantispa gracilis RAMB. Neur. 433, 6 ? WESTWOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond. ser. 2, I, 256, 30. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 222, 30.
HAB. Columbia.
areolaris. Mantispa areolaris WESTWOOD 1 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2,
I, 265, 41 ; pi. xviii, fig. 3. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 226, 41.
HAB. Brazil,
chilensis! Mantispa chilensis HAGEN I Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1859, 708, 8.
HAB. Chili.
Trichoscelis Westwood.
notha! Mantispa notha BPRM.! Hdb. II, 968, 5. ERICHS.! Germ. Zeitschr.
I, 170, 20 ; pi. ii, fig. 6. WESTWOOD, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. ser. 2,
I, 255, 20. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 219, 20.
HAB. Brazil.
fenella. Mantispa fenella WESTWOOD! Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2,1,
269, 46 ; pi. xviii, fig. 7. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 227, 46.
HAB. Para,
varia. Raphidia varia WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 212, 13.
HAB. Brazil.
Clirysopa Leach.
divisa! Chrysopa divisa WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 242, 12.
HAB. Brazil,
hybrida ! Chrysopa hybrida SCHNEID. Chrys. 81, 10, pi. xvi. RAJIB.
Neuropt. 426, 7. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 245, 20.
HAB. Brazil,
brasiliensis. Chrysopa brasiliensis SCHNEID. Chrys. 83, 11, pi. xvii.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 246, 21.
HAB. Brazil,
cincta. Chrysopa cincta SCHNEID. Chrys. 86, 13, pi. six. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 247, 24.
HAB. Brazil, Para,
circumfusa ! Chrysopa circumfusa SCHNEID.! Chrys. 87, 14, pi. xx. BCEM.
Hdb. II, 980, 3. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 247, 25.
HAB. Brazil,
cruentata ! Chrysopa cruentata SCHNEID.! Chrys. 89, 15, pi. xxi. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 248, 26.
HAB. Brazil.
costalis! Chrysopa costalis SCHNEID.! Chrys. 90, 16, pi. xxii. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 248, 27.
EAB. America.
intermedia ! Chrysopa intermedia SCHNEID. Chrys. 106, 27, pi. xxxiii.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 252, 40.
HAB. Brazil.
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internata! Clmjsopa internata WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 252, 41.
HAB. Brazil,
nigrovaria. Chrysopa nigrovaria WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 253, 42.
HAB. Venezuela.
elegans! Hemerobius elegans GU£R. Icon. Regn. Anim. 388. SCHNEID.!
Chrys. 134, 42, pi. xlii. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 261, 59.
HAB. Brazil.
varia. Chrysopa varia SCHNEID. Chrys. 154, 52 ; pi. 1, viii. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 268, 71.
HAB. Brazil, Para,
longicornis. Hemerobius longicornis GRAY, Griff. Anim. Kingd. XV, 331 ;
pi. Ixxii, fig. 3. SCHNEID. Chrys. 156, 53 ; pi. lix. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 270, 75.
HAB. Brazil.
iridea. Hemerobius irideus OLIV. Encyc. Meth. VII, 50, 4. SCHNEID. Chrys.
161. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 274, 84.
HAB. Surinam.
conformis. Hemerobius conformis RAMB. Neuropt. 426, 8. SCHNEID. Chrys.
163. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 275, 88.
HAB. Colombia.
valida! Hemerobius validus EKICHS.! Schomburgk, Reise Guiana, 586.
SCHNEID. Chrysop. 164. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 275, 89.
HAB. British Guiana ; Brazil, Pernambuco.
ternata ! Chrysopa te.rnata HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Pernambuco.
marionella! Hemerobius marionella GUER. Revue. WALK.! Catal. Br.
Mus. 271, 78.
HAB. Para.
Schneider, Mongr. Chrysop. p. 69, affirms that Chr. vulgaris, a very
abundant European species, is found in Brazil. I have never seen
an American specimen.
Belonoptera Gerstaecker.
spec. nov.
HAB. Cassapava, Brazil. (Mus. Berlin.)
Acanthaclisis Rambur.
striata! Acanthaclisis striata HAGEN.
HAB. Colombia (Saussure).
fallax! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Colombia ; Guiana ; Brazil.
Myrmeleon LINNE".
immitis. Alyrmeleon immitis WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 331, 50.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem.
anomalus. Myrmeleon anomalus RAMB. Neuropt. 388, 6. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 333, 54.
HAB. Colombia.
MYRMELEON. 325
ingeniosus. Myrmeleon ingeniosus WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 337, 63.
HAB. Brazil.
cautus. Myrmeleon cautus WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 349, 79.
HAB. Brazil.
dolosus. Myrmeleon dolosus WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 383, 144.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem.
metuendus. Myrmeleon metuendus WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 387, 149.
HAB. Venezuela.
efferus. Myrmeleon efferus WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 387, 150.
HAB. Para.
praedator. Myrmeleon praedator WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 391, 156.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem.
elegans. Myrmeleon elegans PERTT, Delect. 125 ; pi. xxv. RAMB. Neuropt.
409, 43. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 395, 163.
HAB. Brazil,
subdolus! Myrmeleon subdolus WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 395, 1G4.
HAB. Lima.
sticticus. Myrmeleon sticticum BLANCH. Orbigny Voy. 218, 753 ; pi. xxviii,
fig. 17. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 404, 187.
HAB. Chiquibos, Bolivia.
tarsalis. Formicaleo tarsalis GUILDING, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. XVI, 51, 2.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 410, 215.
HAB. Demerara?
chilensis ! Myrmeleon chilensis HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Chili.
corax! Myrmeleon cor ax HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Venezuela.
impar ! Myrmeleon impar HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Chili.
ornatus ! Myrmeleon ornatus KLUG ! HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil,
sericeus ! Myrmeleon sericeus HAGEN 1
HAB. Chili.
leprosus ! Myrmeleon leprosus HAGEN !
HAB. Chili,
compensus ! Myrmeleon compensus HAGEN
HAB. Chili,
ereptus ! Myrmeleon ereptus HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela.
congruua ! Myrmeleon congruus HAGEN
HAB. Amazon River.
arcuatus ! Myrmeleon arcuatus HAGEN.
HAB. Bahia.
sanctus ! Myrmeleon sanctus HAGEN.
HAB. Pernambuco.
mucoreus ! Myrmeleon mucoreus HAGEN.
HAB. Pernambuco.
nervosus! Myrmeleon nervosus HAGEN!
HAB. Amazon River.
326 LIST OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
centurio ! Myrmeleon centui io HAGEN !
HAB. Pernambuco.
infantilis! Mijrineleon infantilis HAGEN!
HAB. Columbia.
aequalis ! Myrmeleon aequalis HAGEN !
HAB. Columbia.
w
Ascalaplius Fabriciua.
* Eyes sulcated.
loquax. AscalapJius loquax WALK. Catal. 434, 48.
HAB. Brazil,
subvertens. AscalapJius subvertens WALK. Catal. 437, 55.
HAB. St. Lucia.
inhonestus ! AscalapJius inJionestus WALK.! Catal. 437, 56.
HAB. Brazil,
subripiens. AscalapJius subripiens WALK. Catal. 443, 64.
HAB. Venezuela.
impavidus. AscalapJius impavidus WALK. Catal. 443, 65.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem.
intempestivus. AscalapJius intempestivus WALK. Catal. 444, 66.
HAB. Brazil, Santarem.
sepultus. AscalapJius sepultus WALK. Catal. 445, 67.
HAB. Brazil.
nobilis ! AscalapJius nobilis HAGEN !
HAB. Columbia,
apicalis ! AscalapJius apicalis LEFEB.! (Mus. Berlin.)
HAB. Brazil,
calidus ! AscalapJius calidus HAGEN !
HAB. Brazil, Pernambuco.
limbatus! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Brazil,
modestus ! AscalapJius modestus HAGEN !
HAB. Venezuela ; Surinam ; Paramaribo.
chlorops. AscalapJius chlorops BLANCH. Voyag. d'Orbigny, 218, 754; tab.
xxviii, fig. 8. WALK. Catal. 453, 81.
HAB. St. Cruz, Bolivia,
cayennensis. AscalapJius cayennensis FABR. Entom. Syst. II, 96, 6.
HAB. Cayenne.
macrocerus! Ascalaphus macrocerus BURM.! Hdb. II, 1000, 3.
HAB. Brazil, Bahia.
Perhaps J.. impavidus WALK. ?
verslcolor ! AscalapJius versicolor BDRM.! Hdb. II, 1000, 4. AscalapJius
appendifer LEFEBVRE! Mus. Berlin. WALK. Catal. 420, 23. Calobop-
terus leptocerus RBR.! (mas.) Neuropt. 361, 1. WALK. Catal. 440, 59.
Calobopterus nematocerus RBK.! (fern.) Neuropt. 361, 2. WALK.
Catal. 441, 60.
HAB. Brazil,
surinamensis ! Ascalaphus surinamensis FABR. Entom. Syst. App. 207,
4 — 5. Cordulecerus surinamensis RAMB. Neuropt. 360, tab. ix, fig. 1.
BITTACUS. 327
Ascalaphus vulpecuht BUEM.! Hdb. II, 1001, 6 (mas., wings immacu-
late). Ascalaphus garrulus WALK.! Catal. 441, 61 (mas.). Asca-
laphus alopecinus BCTEJI.! Hdb. II, 1000, 5 (fern.). Ascalaphus* liti-
giosus WALK. Catal. 441, 62.
HAB. Surinam, Brazil, Bahia.
vetula. Ulula vetula RAMB. Neuropt. 358, 2. WALK. Catal. 436, 52.
HAB. Brazil, Campos Geraes.
* * Eyes entire.
COStatus! Ascalaphus costatus BURM.! Hdb. II, 1000, 1. Ascalaphus con-
trarius WALK.! Catal. 452, 79. Ascalaphus imperator LEFKB.! (Mus.
Berlin.)
HAB. Surinam ; Brazil, Bahia, Para..
(Perhaps Byas microcerus HER. ?)
subcostatus ! Ascalaphus subcostatus BURM.! Hdb. II, 1000, 2. Ascala-
phus injurius WALK.! Catal. 447, 72. Ascalaphus impediens WALK.!
Catal. 449, 74. Ascalaphus damnosus WALK. Catal. 449, 75 ? Asca-
laphus luteus WALK.! Catal. 450, 77.
HAB. Brazil, Amazon River, Santarem, Para.
albistigma ! Ascalaphus albistigma WALK.! Catal. 452, 80. Ascalaphus
circumflexus WALK.! Catal. 451, 79.
HAB. Venezuela ; Brazil, Santarem, Para.
iniquus. Ascalaphus iniquus WALK. Catal. 448, 73.
HAB. Brazil.
arenosus. Ascalaphus arenosus WALK. Catal. 450, 76.
HAB. Brazil.
appendiciilatus. Ascalaphus appendiculatus FABR. Ent. Syst. II, 98, 4.
Haploglenius appendiculatus RAMB. Neuropt. 363. WALK. Catal.
446, 69.
HAB. Brazil.
Perhaps the male of A. costatus ?
FAM. IX. PANORPINA.
UittacilS Latr.
brasiliensis ! Bittacus brasiliensis KLUG! Acad. Berol. 1836, 98, 3. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 466, 4.
HAB. Brazil, Cassapava.
femoralis. Bittacus femoralis KLUG ! Acad. Berol. 1836, 98, 5. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 466, 5.
HAB.
flavescens! Bittacus flavescens KLUG ! Acad. Berol. 1836, 99, 7. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 466, 7. Bittacus affinis WESTW. Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond. IV, 196, 1. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 468, 12.
HAB. Brazil, Para,
chilejisis. Bittacus chilensis KLUG ! Acad. Berol. 1836, 100, 9 ; pi. fig. 6.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 467, 9.
HAB. Chili.
328 LIST or SOUTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA.
blancheti! Bittacus blanchcti PICT. Mem. Geneve. VII, 403, fig. 3. KLUG !
Acad. Berol. 1836, 100, 10. RAMB.! Neuropt. 327, 3; pi. viii. fig. (j.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 467, 10.
HAB. Brazil.
FAM. X. PHRYGANINA.
Barypentlius Burmeister.
concolor. Barypentlius concolor BUKM.! Hdb. II, 929, 2. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 54, 1.
HAB. Brazil.
rufipes. Barypenthus rufipes BURJI.! Hdb. II, 929, 2. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 55, 2.
HAB. Brazil.
Sericostonia Latreille.
tropica ! Sericostoma ? tropica HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
Macroiieina Pictet.
hyalinum. Macronemum hyalinum PICT. Metn. Geneve. VII. BURM. Hdb.
II, 916, 3. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 75, 3.
HAB. Brazil,
speciosum. Macronemum speciosum BUEII. Hdb. II, 916, 1. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 74, 1.
HAB. Brazil.
lineatum. Macronema lineata PICT. Mem. Geneve. VII. BURM. Hdb. 916,
2. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 74, 2.
HAB. Brazil.
auripenne ! Macronema auripenne RAMB.! Neuropt. 507, 2. WALK.
Catal. Br. Mus. 75, 4.
HAB. Brazil.
rubiginosum. Macronema rubiginosa GU£R. Icon. Regn. Anirn. Texte,
395. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus. 75, 5.
HAB. Brazil.
oculatum. Macronema oculata WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 75, 6.
HAB. Venezuela.
cupreum. Macronema cupreum WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 76, 7.
HAB. Brazil. (Perhaps M. auripenne ?)
apicale. Macronema apicalis WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 78, 15.
HAB. Venezuela.
pallida! (See North American Neuropt.)
HAB. Venezuela, Brazil,
vicarium. Hydropsyche vicaria WALK.! Catal. Br. Mus. 114, 39.
HAB. Venezuela.
agraphum. Macronema agraphum KOLEN. Wien. Ent. Zeits. 1S59, p. 57.
HAB. Brazil.
arcuatum! Macronema arcuatum ERICHS.! Schomburgk, Reise Guiana, III.
UAB. British Guiana.
HYDROPSYCHE — LEPTOCERUS — CHIMARRHA. 329
Hydropsyche Pictet.
australis ! Hydropsyche australis HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
L-eptocerus Leach.
albicornis. Mystacides albicornis BUEM. Hdb. II, 918, 1. WALK. Catal.
Br. Mus. 69, 54.
HAB. Brazil.
gracilis. Mystacides gracilis BTJEM. Hdb. II, 921, 12. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 69, 55.
HAB. Brazil,
princeps. Mystacides princeps BUEM. Hdb. II, 921, 13. WALK. Catal. Br.
Mus. 69, 56.
TT ' B. Brazil,
maculatus. Phn/ganea maculata PEBTY, Delect. 129, pi. xxv, fig. 16.
WALK. Catal. Br. Mus, 74, 70.
HAB. Brazil, St. Paul.
diaphanus. Blepharopus diaphanus KOL. Wien. Ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 58.
HAB. South America.
Chimarrlia Leach.
morio ! Chimarrha morio BUKM. Hdb. II, 911, 2. WALK. Catal. Br. Mus.
81,2.
HAB. Brazil,
maculata! Chimarrha? maculata HAGEN, Collect.
HAB. Brazil.
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LIST OF THE NEUROPTERA DESCRIBED IN THE SYNOPSIS
OF NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES.
GENERA.
Species.
New species.
Species not
examined.
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DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES.
333
DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES,
(AS FAR AS AT PRESENT KNOWN.)
Species.
Species.
Species.
Massachusetts .
27
Obio ....
21
Alabama . . .
1
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1
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1
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35
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104
Indiana .
22
Louisiana . .
33
Pennsylvania .
New Jersey .
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25
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Missouri . . .
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16
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California . .
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32
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29
without locality
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24
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3
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2
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9
Georgia .
104
Mississippi .
2
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6
Mexico . . .
112
Martinique .
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Central America
22
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128
53
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62
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Species.
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31
2
Embidiua ....
3
3
Psocina ......
12
4
Perlina ......
21
5
Ephemerina ..... 5
12
6
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298
7
Sialina ....
10
8
Hernerobina .....
92
9
Panorpina .....
5
10
Phryganina .... 6
23
73
507
336 SUMMARY.
SUMMARY.
North America contains ...... 716 species.
South America contains ...... 507 "
Total . 1223 "
Deducting 53 species found in both North and South America, the whole con-
tinent of America contains 1170 species; of which 436 are new to science.
The actual number of "species not examined," 220 for North America and
128 for South America (total 348), is considerably less in reality; the species
entirely unknown to me are 83 for North America and 29 for South America
(total 112), mostly described by Say, Asa Fitch, and Pictet.
GLOSSARY.1
Abnormal. Deviating from the usual type.
Accessory subcostal vein. The vein given off from the subcosta, and
branching towards the apex of the wing.
Acuminate. Furnished with a produced point.
Adult. The fully matured state of an insect.
Anal angle. The posterior interior corner of a wing.
Anal space. The area at the posterior base of the hind wings, which
folds together when the wings are at rest, as in most Phryganese, &c.
Anastomosis. The thickened point of juncture of nervules.
Angulose. Constituting an angle or angles.
Annulated. Ringed ; furnished with ring-like bands.
Annulus. A ring ; a narrow, encircling band.
Antecubital. Pertaining to the space between the base of the wing and
the nodus.
Antehumeral. Pertaining to the space immediately before the origin of
the wings.
Antennae. Two articulated feelers placed superiorly upon the head.
Anteocular. In front of the eyes.
Anterior. Before ; forward part.
Anteriorly. Forwardly ; in front.
Anus. The vent, or fundament.
Apex. The extremity, or smaller end opposite to the base.
Apical. Pertaining to the apex.
Apical sector. One of the longitudinal veins of the apex of a wing.
Approximated. Placed near; close together.
Arcuated. Curved, as a bow.
Article, or Articulation. A joint; or segment between two transverse
sutures.
Areolate. Furnished with small areas.
Auricle. A small ear, or ear-like process.
Auriculated. Furnished with auricles.
Basal. Pertaining to the base.
1 This Glossary has been prepared hy Mr. UHLER, at the request of the Smithsonian
Institution, -with the view of furnishing an explanation yf the technical terms employed
in the present work.
22
338 GLOSSARY.
Base. The foundation ; as, Base of the head : that part of the head ap-
plied against the thorax.
Biarcuated. Twice-curved.
Bicolored. Two-colored.
Bidentate. Two-toothed.
Bifid- Two-branched.
Bifurcated. Two-forked.
Bi-impressed. Twice-impressed.
Bilineated. Marked with two lines.
Bilobed. Furnished with two lobes.
Bimaculated, Twice-spotted ; having two spots.
Binotated. With two marks, or dots.
Biovate. Twice-ovate.
Biparted. Separated into two parts.
Biserrated. Provided with two small triangular teeth.
Bisetous. Furnished with two bristle-like appendages.
Bituberculated. Provided with two tubercles.
Bivittated. Marked with two longitudinal stripes.
Branchiae. Breathing tubes analogous to gills.
Calcarated. Armed with spurs.
Carbonaceous. Resembling charcoal.
Carina. An elevated keel-like edge.
Carinate. Furnished with a carina.
Carpus. The pterostigma.
Caudal. Pertaining to the end of the abdomen.
Cellule. A little space surrounded by veins, on the wings.
Cerci. The superior processes at the end of the abdomen.
Chalybeous. Of a steel-blue color.
Cilia. Hairs set like a fringe ; resembling eyelashes.
Ciliated. Furnished with cilia.
Cinereous. Of an ash-gray color.
Clavate. Furnished with a thickened extremity like a club.
Clypeus. That part of the head immediately above the labrum.
Compressed. Flattened together, as if by pressure applied at each side.
Confluent. Flowing together ; united at the ends, as the veins of wings.
Connate. United ; not separated by an articulated suture.
Cordiform. Shaped like a heart.
Coriaceous. Of a consistence resembling leather.
Costa. The same as costal rein.
Costal. Pertaining to the costa.
Costal area. A space between the costa and the next longitudinal vein.
Costal vein. The rib-like vein of the anterior margin of the wings, fol-
lowed, in the section Neuroptera, by the sub6osta, the radius, and the
cubitus; the latter is frequently double (cub. anticus, cub. posticus').
Cultriform. Shaped like a pruning-knife.
Cuneiform. Shaped like a wedge.
GLOSSARY. 339
Cupreous. Of a copper-color.
Deciduous. Casting off the wings.
Dentated. Furnished with teeth.
Denticle. A small tooth.
Depressed. Flattened down.
Dilated. Widened, expanded.
Discoidal. Pertaining to the disk or middle.
Discoidal areolets. Spaces of the middle of a wing ; in the Libellulina
they are placed beyond the triangle.
Disk. The middle surface.
Divaricated. Spreading apart, as two gradually separating branches.
Dolabriform. Shaped like a hatchet.
Dorsum. The superior surface of the thorax or abdomen.
Elliptical. Elongate-oval.
Emarginate, or Emarginated. Notched.
Ensiform. Sword-shaped ; sharp on both edges, and tapering to a point.
Epistoma. That part of the face between the front and labrum.
Equal. Of the same size or length.
Excision. A cut out of an edge, not always of the same shape.
Facies. Aspect ; appearance.
Falcate. Sickle-shaped ; curved like a sickle.
Fascia. Used here as a stripe broader than a line.
Femora. The thighs.
Femur. A thigh.
Fenestrated. Marked with transparent spots surrounded by a darker
color, somewhat like panes of glass in windows.
Ferruginous. Rust-eolored.
Filiform. Slender and cylindrical, like a thread.
Flavescent. Somewhat yellow.
Flexuous. Almost zigzag, more acute at the angles than undulating. .
Foliaceous. Leaf-like.
Forcipated. Furnished with two pieces approaching at the ends like
pincers.
Fovea. A more or less rounded depression.
Foveolate. Furnished with cavities or depressions.
Free. Unrestrained in articulated movement ; not soldered at the points
of contact.
Front. The fore-face, bounded by the eyes, the vertex, and usually be-
neath by the epistoma.
Frontal. Pertaining to the front.
Fuliginous. Of the color of dark smoke. »
Fulvo-aeneous. Brazen, with a tinge of brownish-yellow.
Fulvous. Tawny, color of the common deer.
Furcated. Forked ; split into two separating ends.
Fuscescent. Measurably fuscous.
Fusco -ferruginous. Rust-colored, with a brownish tinge.
340 GLOSSARY.
Fusee-testaceous. Dull reddish-browii.
Fuscous. Dark brown, approaching black.
Fusiform. Spindle-shaped ; gradually tapering at each end.
Genital lobe. The bag-like appendage upon the second ventral segment
of the male dragon-fly.
Genital accessory organs. The hooks, &c. , situated beneath the second
ventral segment of the male dragon-fly, &c.
Glaucous. Of a sea-green color.
Guttae. Marks resembling dots or small spots.
Guttated. Marked with guttce.
Gradate. Step by step ; successive.
Granulated. Provided with minute, close prominences, like very small
grains of sand, &c.
Hab. Abbreviation of Habitat.
Habitat. The place or region which an insect inhabits.
Habitus. Aspect ; general appearance, or likeness.
Hamate. Furnished with hooks, or hook -like processes.
Hamule. A small hook.
Hastated. Halberd-shaped ; excavated at the base and sides, but with
spreading lobes or angles.
Hastiform. Shaped like a halberd.
Haustellate. Furnished with a proboscis-like mouth.
Hirsute. Clothed with shaggy hairs.
Humeral. Belonging to the humerus or shoulder.
Hyaline. Transparent ; of the color of water.
Imagines. Plural of imago.
Imago. The insect in its last stage, after passing through larva and pupa.
Immarginare. Not furnished with a turned-up edge.
Incanous. Hoary ; clothed with whitish hair or powder.
Incision. A slit-like cut.
Incisures. The impressed transverse lines between the segments of the
abdomen, &c.
Incomplete. Not fully developed.
Inferiorly. Beneath ; pertaining to the lower surface.
Infracted. Bent ; suddenly bent.
Infumated. Clouded, as if with tobacco-smoke.
Infuscated. Darkened with a blackish tinge.
Interrupted. Suddenly stopped.
Involuted. Rolled inwards spirally.
Irrorated. Marked with spots like freckles.
Labium. The lower lip of an insect.
Labrum. The upper lip of an insect.
Lamelliform. Shaped like a plate of metal, &c.
Lamina. A plate or sheet-like piece.
Laminated. Provided with lamina.
Lanceolate, or Lanceolated. Shaped like a spear.
GLOSSARY. 341
Larva. The first stage of an insect after it is excluded from the egg.
Lateral. Pertaining to the sides.
Laterally. Sideways.
Linear. Shaped like a line ; very narrow in form.
Lineated. Provided with line-like marks.
Lunule. A half-moon-shaped object or mark.
Lurid. Bright colors obscured.
Luteous. Egg-yellow; clay-yellow.
Maculose. Spotted.
Mandibles. Jaws ; two, generally horny pieces of the mouth, imme-
diately under the labrum.
Mandibulate. Tarnished with mandibles.
Margined. Edged ; provided with a margin.
Marmorated. Marbled ; veined like marble.
Maxillae. Pieces of the mouth which occupy the places of the jaw-bones.
Maxillary palpi. Jointed appendages attached to the maxillae.
Median, or Medial. Of, or occupying the middle.
Median Nervule. The third basal nervule in Calopterygina, &c.
Median space. The posterior space at the base of the wings in Calop-
teryx, &c.
Membranaceous. Of a membrane-like character.
Membranule. The small triangular flap at the interior base of the wings
in Libellulina, &c.
Meridional. Equatorial.
Mesothorax. Middle primary division of the thorax.
Metathorax. The posterior primary division of the thorax.
Mobile. Movable.
Moniliform. Shaped like a string of beads.
Multi-areolate. Composed of many small areas or spaces.
Multi-articulate. Composed of many articles or joints.
Mutic. Unarmed, i. e., without spines, &c.
Nasus. A space directly above the labrum.
Nasute. Bearing a projection like a nose; said of certain workers, &c.,
amongst the Termites.
Nebula. A cloud-like spot.
Nodal. Pertaining to an oblique stout vein, called the nodus.
Nodulose. Clothed with knot-like small prominences.
Nodus. A stout, oblique, short vein in the Odonata, at the place where
the anterior margin of the wings is somewhat drawn in.
Obovate. Inversely ovate, the smaller end turned towards the base.
Obsolete. Not distinct, or almost lost to view.
Obtected. Covered.
Ocelli. The simple eyes of insects ; usually three amongst the Neuroptera.
Ochraceous, or Ochreous. Of a more or less deep ochre-color.
Occiput. The back part of the head behind the vertex.
Olivaceous. Of an olive-color.
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342 GLOSSARY.
Onychium. See Plantula.
Oval. Egg-sLaped.
Ovate. More or less oval.
Palpi. The feelers attached to the mouth of insects.
Pectus. The breast, or inferior surface of the thorax.
Petiolated. Narrowed into a handle-like neck ; as the base of the wings
in Ayr ion.
Phalerated. Marked with stripes and bands like the harness of a horse.
Piceous. Color of pitch.
Pile. Hair ; usually hair arranged somewhat in rows.
Pilose. Clothed with pile.
Plantula. A small lap or membranous appendage between the tarsal
nails of insects ; also called Onychium.
Plicated. Furnished with folds ; folded.
Postcostal, or Postcubital. Pertaining to the space between the nodus
and pterostigma.
Posteriorly. Behind ; after.
Process. A prolongation of the surface, such as an ear-like elevation, &c.
Produced. Drawn out ; prolonged.
Frothorax. The first segment of the thorax.
Pruinose. Clothed with bluish or white bloom or powder.
Pterostigma. A more or less colored mark upon the anterior margin
before the apex of a wing, between the costal and the following
longitudinal vein.
Pterostigmatical. Pertaining to the pterostigma, or its locality.
Pubescent. Clothed with short, soft, fine hair or down.
Functiform. Shaped like a point or dot.
Pyriform. Shaped like a pear.
Quadrangular space. The space immediately beyond the basal one and
in front of the median space of the wings.
Radius. The vein just behind the subcostal one.
Raptatorial. Adapted for seizing prey.
Recurved. Curved backwards.
Reniform. Kidney-shaped.
Reticulated. Furnished with veiuing or marking like network.
Reticulation. Veining, or marking like the meshes of a net.
Rhinarium. The nostril-piece ; a portion of the nasus, or its equivalent
when reduced in size.
Rhombical. Quadrangular, with two opposite angles acute and two
obtuse.
Rhomboidal. Somewhat in the shape of a rhomb.
Rufescent. Somewhat reddish.
Rufous. Reddish.
Rugose. Wrinkled ; furnished with numerous rough, small elevations
like wrinkles.
Rugulae. Minute wrinkles.
Rugulose. Minutely wrinkled.
GLOSSARY. 343
Salient. Projecting ; jutting out.
Sanguineous. Blood-red.
Sectors. Longitudinal nerves which strike the principal nerves at an
angle, and usually reach the apex or hind margin of the wing.
Semihyaline. Half transparent.
Semilunar. Half-inoon shaped.
Sericeous. Having the surface with a silk-like gloss, usually from
minute, dense hairs.
Serrated. Having prominences like saw-teeth.
Seta. A bristle-like appendage, such as at the tail of Ephemera, &c.
Setaceous. Bristle-like ; resembling a bristle.
Setae. Plural of Seta.
Setiform. Bristle-shaped.
Sinuated. Scooped out, or broadly shallowly excavated on a margin.
Spurs. Stiff bristle-like appendages upon the tilice. In the Phryganeae
they are either at the tip or in the middle of the tibire ; their number
affords an important character for classification, and is expressed
by three figures, meaning the three successive pairs of feet ; thus
2, 4, 4, means two terminal spurs on the fore tibise, two terminal
and two middle ones on the middle tibite, and two terminal and
two middle ones on the hind tibiae.
Stramineous. Straw-colored ; yellow.
Stria. A line, usually depressed, sometimes composed of punctures.
Striae. Plural of stria.
Striated. Charged with striae.
Subaduncate. Somewhat hooked or curved.
Subcinereous. Somewhat gray.
Subcosta. The vein just behind the costa.
Subhyaline. Almost transparent, or water-colored.
Subimago. A state of Ephemera, &c., wherein the wings, &c., are covered
with a membrane, which is cast off when it becomes an Imago.
Submarginal. Just behind the margin.
Submedian nerve. The longitudinal large nerve j ust behind the median.
Subnude. Almost without clothing ; without hairs, &c.
Subocular. Beneath the eyes.
Subrect. Almost straight.
Subscabrous. Indistinctly rough.
Subulate. Shaped like an awl.
Sulcus. A groove-like excavation.
Sulphureous. Of a color resembling sulphur.
Suture. A seam, or impressed line; usually between segments.
Tarsus (plural Tarsi). The terminal, almost always jointed divisions of
the foot of an insect, immediately after the tibia.
Teneral. A state of the imago after exclusion, in which it has not fully
completed its coloring, clothing, &c.
Testaceo-hyaline. Transparent, with a slight tinge of dull reddish.
Testaceous. Dull brick-color.
344 GLOSSARY.
Tetragonal. Having four sides or angles.
Thorax. The second primary segment of the body, bearing the legs and
wings.
Thyridium. A small pale or almost transparent spot near the anasto-
mosis of the disk of the wings in Phryganina.
Tibia. The shanks ; that part of the leg between the femur and tarsus.
Trapezoidal. Four-sided, with two sides unequal and parallel.
Triangle. A three-sided figure ; found in the front wings of Libellula
near the base.
Triarticulate. Composed of three joints or articles.
Trifid. Cleft into three ends.
Trifoveolated. Furnished with three pits or foveae.
Trigonal. Triangular, three-sided.
Trilobed. Having three lobes.
Triquetral. Having three more or less long angles.
Trochanters. The joints of the legs situated between the femora and
coxae..
Truncated. Cut square off.
Tuberculoid. Resembling a tubercle.
Tuberculose. Covered with tubercle-like prominences.
Unguiculus. A nail, like that at the extremity of the tarsus.
Unguiculi. Plural of Unguiculus.
Unique. A single individual of a kind.
Vaginated. Covered with a sheath-like plate, or vagina.
Valvule. A small valve-like process.
Venter. The under surface of the abdomen.
Ventral. Pertaining to the under surface of the abdomen.
Verrucose. Covered with wart-like prominences.
Vertex. The upper part of the head, just above the front.
Vesicle of the penis. The bag-like appendage on the second ventral
segment of the male dragon-fly.
Villose. Clothed with soft, rather long, hair.
Violaceous. Violet-colored.
Viridescent. Somewhat greenish.
Vulva. The orifice of the female genital tube.
Vulvar. Pertaining to the vulva.
Vulvar lamina. The scale or appendage upon the ventral surface of the
eighth segment in the female dragon-fly.
To those desirous of becoming better acquainted with the terminology
of Neuroptera, especially that of the neuration of the wings, the following
inexpensive little work may be recommended: Neuroptera austriaca, by
Friedr. Brauer and Franz Loew, Vienna, 1857, with five plates. Although
written in German, it will prove useful, on account of its plates, even to
those not familiar with that language.
INDEX,
Acanthaclisis, 223, 324
Aeschna, 119, 314
AESCHNINA, 98, 117, 312,
314
Agrion, 74, 87, 310, 312
AGRIONINA, 56, 62, 65,
305, 307
Aleuronia, 196
Amphipteryx, 307
Anabolia, 264
Anax, 117, 314
Apatania, 270
Ascalaphus, 237, 326
Atropos, 8
Baetis, 44, 304
Barypenthus, 328
Belonoptera, 324
Beraea, 296
Bittacus, 246, 327
Boreus, 240
Brachycentrus, 272
Caenis, 54
CALOPTERYGINA, 56, 305
Calopteryx, 56
Calotermes, 1, 299
Capnia, 32, 303
Celithemis, 147
Chalcopteryx, 307
Chauliodes, 189, 321
Chimarrha, 297, 329
Chrysopa, 211, 323
Cloe, 52, 304
Clothilla, 7
Colpotaulius, 253
Coniopteryx, 197
Cora, 307
Cordulegaster, 115, 313
Cordulia, 136, 315
CORDULINA, 132, 315
Corydalis, 192, 32]
Dasystoma, 273
Desmotaulius, 263
Diastatops, 321
Dicterias, 307
Didymops, 135
Diplax, 173, 318
Dythemis, 162, 317
Embidina, xix, 7, 301
Enoicyla, 267
Ephemera, 38
Ephemerina, xix, 38,
304
Epitheca, 134
Erpetogomphus, 98
Erythemis, 168, 317
Euclea, 309
Euptilon, 237
GOMPHINA, 98, 312
Gomphoides, 111, 312
Gomphus, 98, 102, 312
Gynacantha, 131, 315
Hagenius, 114*
Hallesus, 265
Heliocharis, 306
Hemerobina, xx, 196,
322
Hemerobius, 200, 322
Hetaerina, 58, 305
Hodotermes, 299
Hydropsyche, 286, 329
HYDROPSVCHIDES, 284
Hydroptila, 274
Hyponeura, 309
Ictinus, 313
Ischnura, 75, 310
Isopteryx, 31
Lais, 305
Lepthemis, 160, 316
Leptogaster, 309
LEPTOCERIDES, 275
Leptocerus, 276, 329
Lestes, 65, 308
Leuctra, 37
Libellula, 150, 316
LlBELLULINA, 132, 141,
315
LlMNOPHILIDES, 253
Lirunophilus, 253, 254
Macromia, 132
Macronema, 284, 328
Mantispa, 207, 322
Mecistogaster, 64, 308
Megalomus, 198
Megaloprepus, 62, 307
Meleoma, 210
Merope, 248
Mesothemis, 170, 318
Mieromus, 198
Microstigrna, 308
Molanna, 275
Mormonia, 273
Myrmeleon, 225, 324
Nannophya, 186, 320
Nehalennia, 74
Nemoura, 36
Neogomphus, 110
Neoneura, 309
Neuronia, 249
NEUROPTERA, xix, 187
Notidobia, 271
Notosticta, 309
Odonata, xix, 55, 305
Oligoneuria, 304
Olyntha, 7, 301
Ophiogomphus, 101
Qrthemis, 160, 316
Palingenia, 40, 304
Palpopleura, 320
Panorpa, 241
Panorpina, xx, 240, 327
Pantala, 141, 315
Palaemnema, 72
Paraphlebia, 71
Perithemis, 185, 319
Perla, 17, 302
Perlina, xx, 14, 302
Petal ia, 313
Petalura, 117
Phenes, 314
Philopotamus, 291
346
INDEX.
Phryganea, 252
PHKYGANIDES, 249
Phryg-anina, xx, 249,
328
Plathemis, 149
Podagrion, 309
Polycentropus, 292
Polystoechotes, 206
Potamanthus, 51
Progomphus, 110
Protoneura, 73, 310
PSEUDONEUROPTERA, XIX,
1
Pseudostigma, 63, 308
PSEUDOSTIGMATA, 62
Fsocina, xx, 7, 302
Psocus, 8, 302
Psychomyia, 294
Pteronarcys, 14
Pyrrhosoma, 85, 311
Raphidia, 194, 321
Rhyacophila, 295
RHYACOPHILIDES, 295
Sericostoma, 270, 328
SERICOSTOMIDES, 270
Setodes, 280
Sialiua, xx, 187, 321
Sialis, 187
Silo, 272
Sisyra, 197
Taeniopteryx, 34
Termes, 3, 299
Termitina, xx, 1, 299
Termopsis, 3
Tetragoneuria, 140
Thyrsophorus, 302
Thore, 307
Tinodes, 295
Tramea, 143, 316
Trichocnemis, 72
Trichoscelis, 323
Uracis, 320
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 34Y
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.
Page 2, line 28, place semicolon instead of comma after yellowish.
" 4, line 2, add : " with a distinct fovea in the middle," which is oc-
cupied by a minute, elevated point.
" 5, line 7, dele last e in ferruginous ; also on page 30, line 5, and
wherever found so spelt.
" 60, bottom of page, dele diseresis from a in Hagen.
" 64, line 19, for Mecistogastur read Mecistogaster.
" 66, line 24, place a comma after the word front.
" 70, line 16, place a comma before the word pruinose.
" 76, line 21, remove the comma from behind the word exteriorly, and
place it before.
" 78, line 21, add the word with, to the clause : a dorsal line, &c.
" 85, line 27, place a comma before and after brassy-green.
" 118, line 33, place a semicolon in the stead of comma before benrath.
" 131, line 30, place a comma after narrowed.
" 143, line 22, pi. xxxviii : change to pi. xlviii.
" 170, bottom of page, for Huastee read Huastec.
" 218, line 34, for little read dot.
" 223, line 19, place a comma after side.
" 224, line 1, place a comma after beneath.
" 256, place after description of Limnophilus radiatus, Hab. N. W. Ter-
ritory (Say).
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